ALL TEXTS ON BRAZILIAN ECONOMY

2007. PAC is nice but innefective industrial policy. It will not lead make Brazil resume growth, and the same aplies to neo-liberal reforms. Only real macroeconomic equilibriu will do that. (Interview to Broadcast).

2007. Commercial globalization is a major opportunity for developing countries, financial globalization, a disaster. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2007. Conventional orthodoxy's new "discovery": the cause of quasi-stagnation in Brazil is corruption, not the high interest rate nor the low exchange rate. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).

2007. Paper comparing three growth strategies: old or national-developmentalism, new developmentalism, and Washingtons conventional orthodoxy - actually a form of neutralizing the catching up of medium income countries. English and Spanish versions available. (Paper: Revista São Paulo em Perspectiva)

2006. President Lula wants 5% growth, but there is no signal that he is prepared to face conventional orthodoxy and change macroeconomic policy. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).

2006. The causes of the desindustrialization and quasi-stagnation of the economy are a non-neutralized Dutch disease and the policy of growth with foreign savings. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2006. A large interview on the Brazilian economy and the lack of a national growth strategy in a global environment defined by high competition among nation-states. (Interview to Laura Greenhalgh: O Estado de S.Paulo).

2006. Either PT or PSDB have an answer on how to face and overcome the Brazilian economy's 26 years old quasi-stagnation because they lost the idea of nation. (Interview to Rodrigo de Almeida: Jornal do Brasil).

2006. Argentina learned from experience, rejects conventional orthodoxy's advises, keeps its exchange rate competitive, and grows. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2006. Bresser-Pereira and Fernando Cardim de Carvalho on new developmentalism. (Interview: Folha de S.Paulo)

2006. In the end of the presidential campaign Alckmin, differently from Lula, was able to articulate sensible ideas on economic policy. It will not be engough. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2006. There is an alternative to the conventional orthodoxy rulling the Brazilian economy. Capital controls are not a sin. (Interview to Catia Seabra: Folha de S.Paulo)

2006. FHC and Lula incurred in exchange rate populism (populismo cambial). (Interview: O Estado de S.Paulo)

2006. The rich and the poor voted for Lula in the first turn the middle class, for Alckmin. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2006. Alckmin's economic program - a step ahead, but insufficient. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).

2006. Debate on economic growth of Brazil with Eliana Cardoso, Ricardo Carneiro e Samuel Pessoa. (O Estado de São Paulo, Aliás Debate)

2006. A preview of the debate to be published three days later on the Brazilian economic growth. O Estado de S.Paulo.

2006. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)