Inivitation to a public seminar: Professor Alfredo Saad-Filho speaks: "Brazil – Economic Policy and Social Movements" Thursday 19 September 2013, Vincent Mabuyakhulu Conference Centre (VMCC)- Newtown

TOMORROW Thursday 19 September 2013, Numsa’s Economic Research and Policy Institute will be hosting a public seminar under the theme “Brazil: Economic Policy and Social Movements”: 1980-2013. The seminar will be addressed by renowned scholar Professor ALFREDO SAAD-FILHO, a Professor of Political Economy at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, United Kingdom.

Professor Saad-Filho has done extensive scholarly work and research on the following contemporary issues: political economy of development, industrial policy, neoliberalism, democracy, alternative economic policies, Latin American political and economic development, inflation and stabilization, and the labour theory of value and its applications.

KARL CLOETE, Numsa Deputy General Secretary will be respondent. The Seminar will be facilitated by AZWELL BANDA. Various opinion-makers, academics, trade unionists and activists have been invited to participate.

The details of the Seminar are as follows:

DATE: Thursday 19 September 2013
TIME: 16H00pm –until- 19H00pm
VENUE: Vincent Mabuyakhulu Conference Centre, 155 Bree (Cnr Gerard Sekoto) Street, Newtown, Johannesburg, Gauteng province

Members of the media are hereby invited to attend and report.

Contact:

Neo Bodibe
Head of Numsa’s Economic Policy and Research Institute
Mobile: +2783 232 1485
Email: neob@numsa.org.za