Season 2, Episode 14: Francisco Rodriguez, The Human Consequences of Economic Sanctions

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Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and economist Francisco Rodriguez as
they discuss Professor Rodriguez’s newest publication, The Human
Consequences of Economic Sanctions. Prof. Rodriguez is an expert
on the use of unilateral economic sanctions - when one country
imposes economic costs on another, and shares insights on the US
as the main user of such unilateral economic sanctions.


Professor Rodriguez offers us a comprehensive assessment of the
effects of unilateral sanctions on the living standards in target
countries. The effects of sanctions are dramatic: rising poverty,
falling living standards, and premature deaths. These
consequences go far beyond politics, and hit the civilian
population very hard. Professor Sachs and Rodriguez offer a
fascinating discussion that sheds light on economic warfare, and
how it is deployed in the world today.

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Footnotes:


Economic Sanctions

Crisis in Venezuela

Venezuela Economy  

The Rise and Fall of a Petrostate

Hugo Chavez 

History of the Venezuelan Oil Industry 

US Economy 

US Sanctions

International Financial Statistics 

US Maximum Pressure

Nicolás Maduro

Unilateral Sanctions 

Secondary Sanctions

Juan Guaidó

Citgo

Sanctions During the Venezuela Crisis

How Latin America Has Been Shaped



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