2007. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
OTHER TYPES OF WORKS
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
2007. The Dutch disease is appreciating dangerously the real. Tarifs are an incomplete but effective way of neutralizing such major market failure. The Brazilin authorities are correct in rejectind the Doha negotiatins. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
2007. The Europeian Union cannot live an agreement which is essential for it dependent on the vote of individual countries. If a nation realy do not agree, there is the alternative of leaving the Union. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
2007. Mexico and Brazil are good examples of what represents dependence, international subordination, in the competitive times of globalization. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo, 18.6).
2007. Brazil's economic growth is being threatened by conventional orthodoxy's macroeconomic policies. The overvalued exchange rate that may only be explained by the Dutch disease (given the trade surplus) is behind such over-appreciation that seriously threatens Brazilian manufacturing industry. (FIESP press release, 13.6.2007)
2007. Brazil is not growing well but just profiting from world economy's prosperity to follow behind.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
2007. The competent neutralization of the Dutch disease requires an export contribution on the goods that profit from abudandant and cheap natural resources. Such contributibution must be marginal, keep high profits of producers, while moves upward the supply curve of the product and limits apreciation of the real. The money of the contribution should be used to create a stabilization fund for primary commodities. (Article: Valor).
2007. Given the Dutch disease, I am not proposing confiscation but a marginal tax on exports that will not hurt but will stabilize commodities' production and profitability. (Two articles by Celso Ming and my letter to him)
2007. Interview to Cristina Borges Guimarães on "Macroeconomia da Estagnação": Brazil needs low interest rate, competitve exchange rate, and austere fiscal policy to overcome quasi-stagnation and grow (Gazeta Mercantil,21.5)
2007. O país precisa voltar a ter uma estratégia nacional de desenvolvimento ou de competição na arena externa. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)
2007. Short interview on the Dutch Disease in Brazil. (O Estado de S.Paulo).
2007. The Lula administration is changing and Mangabeira Unger was right in accepting the President's invitation.(Article Folha de S.Paulo).
2007. The French are not choosing between two projects of nation they already have a good one. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
2007. Otavio Frias was a great jounalist that liked to say that was just a major business entrepreneur. (Article: Valor)
2007. Folha de S.Paulo, 23.04.2007
2007. with Paulo Modesto. The medium term solution of the flight controllers crisis depends on structural management reforms. (Article in Folha de S.Paulo)
2007. If we compare the real and effective exchange rate in Brazil before 1990-92 with the present one, it will be clear that Brazil is victim of the Dutch disease. Before that, we were able to neutralize it we are not anymore, and the consequence is disastrous to the Brazilian economy. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)
2007. EAESP - the São Paulo business school of Getulio Vargas Foundation should give up electing its director and opt for its ion through a Search Committee. This is the system that is consistent with its managerial teaching and research. (Note published just in this site and sent to collegues at FGV).
2007. The Brazilian society is seek because the it faces quasi-stagnation and crisis and has not a clear assessement of the problems it faces.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
2007. US's huge and persistent current account deficts are increasing total foreign debt and international liquidity. They spur speculation and preannounce crisis. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).