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Venezuela: How Did It Come to This?

Poverty, corruption, oil, Chavismo - what are the true root causes of the current crisis? And can football change the fortunes of a UK town?

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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Mon 7 Aug 2017 07:32GMT

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