NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

2006. The 1995 Brazilian Public Management reform was stoped at federal level but is thriving at state and local levels. (Article Folha de S.Paulo).

2006.3. PSDB is divided between the Rio group, that supports the present conventional orthodoxy, and the São Paulo group that critiques it.(Interview: O Estado de S.Paulo)

2006.3. Giddens believes that Lula is a left politician, but, through a high interest rate, he is just transferring income from the poor to the rentiers. (article: Folha de S.Paulo).

2006. 3. Giddens believes that Lula is a left politician, but, through a high interest rate, he is just transferring income from the poor to the rentiers. (Article published in Portuguese in Folha de S. Paulo)

2006.2. PSDB is divided. One group supports the present economic policies, the other, rejects them. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).

2006. Social inequality and the loss of the concept of nation are the two structural causes behind Brazil's long term quasi-stagnation. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2006. José Serra may well be the statesman that Brazil is requiring. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2006. 'New developmentalism' is a third alternative between the conventional wisdom and the dominated or populist wisdom. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2006. What should be done in order to Brazil scape the interest rate trap. (Interview to O Estado de S.Paulo)

2006. The basic steps required to Brazil get out of the interest rate trap in which it is. A change in the 'regiime' of monetary policy is necessary. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2006. In Brazil the left wins elections but does not govern. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2006. The sheer economicism of political analysts does not make sense.(Interview: Folha de S.Paulo)

2006. Labor revenues decreased in real between 1994 and 2004, despite a small increase in per capita income. The incongruency comes out of the interest paid to rentiers. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2005. The groups that gain with the high interest rate and depreciated currency.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2005. If PSDB was in office, I doubt that it would have the present interest rate policy. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).

2005. Brazil said 'basta' to Alca, and may say the same to WTO and the Doha Round. It is better to say that than to have a disastrous agreement as it was the Urugay Round for developing countries. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2005. A competent economic policy shows that Argentina learned from her mistakes, and projects Kirchner as a Latin American leader. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2005. There is a logic behind the American policy of pressing China for the devaluation of its currency and the opening of the capital account.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2005. Competion coming from developing countries constrains social policy in the rich ones, but this does not hinder that Europe, differently from the US, keeps its social capitalism.(article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2005. The Brazilian society is appalled by the administration's political corruption and opportunism in economic policy. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)