This book by Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira, a highly respected Brazilian academic, former
business executive and Minister of Finance, is a severe critique of the neo-liberal policies …

Introduction duly indebted) to impose on them using the International Monetary Fund (IMF),
the World Bank, and the international financial system as tools. To this end, I attempt to …

[The following article is reproduced with permission of the Washington-based Council on
Hemispheric Affairs (COHA). It was published in the Aug. 20, 1993 edition of COHA's …

This essay examines the growth of the Brazilian economy in the medium and long run. It is
directed toward the problems that condition the cosolidation and the support of the …

Whereas middle-income countries in East Asia have embraced an export-oriented national
development strategy that has included resisting several elements of traditional neoliberal …

Na segunda metade da década de 1950, houve um conflito entre Raúl Prebisch, então
secretário-executivo da CEPAL, e Celso Furtado, um de seus mais respeitados técnicos. Tal …

One of the main conclusions of this commentary is that the Real plan–the stabilisation
programme introduced in Brazil in July 1994 which was quite successful in bringing inflation …

A deteriorating international outlook and uncertainty about the future course of domestic
economic policies during an election year led to increasing pressure on Brazil's financial …

O presente artigo se funda na necessidade de apresentar um panorama da sociedade
brasileira a partir dos anos 50, quando se buscou solucionar os problemas do …

A London publisher used to warn against'putting journalism between pasteboard'. In a
sense Mr. Gordon Campbell's book is precisely that; but he is a good and perceptive …