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World Service,07 Aug 2017,17 mins

Venezuela: How Did It Come to This?

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What are the root causes of Venezuela's current crisis? Rob Young asks Ricardo Hausmann, a professor of economics at Harvard University who was previously Venezuela's planning minister and a member of the central bank's board in the 1990s. Also in the programme, can football change the fortunes of a UK town? Rahul Tandon looks at the impact Premier League promotion is having on Huddersfield's economy. And regular commentator of the Financial Times Lucy Kellaway on the importance of writing clearly. (Picture: Opposition activists clash with the police in Caracas; Credit: Federico Parra/AFP/Getty Images)

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