1997. With Jairo Abud. The difference between the short term costs of adjusting an economy and the costs of procrastinating adjustment and reform are the net transition costs. In the limit, they determine the moment reform begins. (Paper World Development)*
ACADEMIC PAPERS
1997. An analyses of the main features of the current administrative reform in Brazil (Paper: Revista do Serviço Público).
1997. Update of "Seis Interpretações sobre o Brasil" (1982). It was written when the Cardoso administration was beginning. (Paper in book edited by Maria Rita Loureiro) Italian version available.
1997. Updated version of "Seis Interpretações sobre o Brasil" . Portuguese version available
1998. After the 1980s' crisis, the main task in Latin America is to rebuild state capacity. (Paper: Novos Estudos CEBRAP)
1996. After the 1980s' crisis, the main task in Latin America is to rebuild state capacity. (Paper in Revista de la CEPAL)
1996. Texto para Discussão com Gilberto Tadeu Lima.
1996. The transition from bureaucratic to public administration in Brazil. It is the first paper where the author presents the state reform model. This model first appeared in his Plano Diretor da Reforma do Aparelho do Estado, September 1995. English and Spanish versions available.(Paper: Revista do Serviço Público)
1996. The transition from bureaucratic to public administration in Brazil. It is the first paper where the author presents the state reform model. This model first appeared in his Plano Diretor da Reforma do Aparelho do Estado, September 1995. English and Portuguese versions available. (Paper in CLAD: Documentos-Debate)
1996 - Presentation in the Senate, June 1996. A short diagnosis of the Brazilian public administration in 1996, and the proposed managerial reform. (Paper Chapter of Crise Econômica e Reforma do Estado no Brasil)
- autor: Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira
1996. The transition from bureaucratic to public administration in Brazil. It is the first paper where the author presents the state reform model. This model first appeared in his Plano Diretor da Reforma do Aparelho do Estado, September 1995. Portuguese and Spanish versions available.(Paper in Bresser-Pereira and Spink edited book)*
1995. (Texto para Discussão ENAP)
1995. The concept of state and the main theories. The role of civil society in assuring democratic legitimacy to the state. Portuguese version available. (Paper: published only in Portuguese)
1995. The concept of state and the main theories. The role of civil society in assuring democratic legitimacy to the state. English version available. (Paper: Lua Nova)*
1995. An account of the 1987 negotiation of the debt crisis. Brazil presented a proposal of debt securitization which represented a turning point in the debt crisis, and was the Brady Plan 18 months later. (Paper: Revista de Economia Política) *
1995. A discussion of development economics ideas and of Word Bank's neo-liberal turn in the early 1980s. Portuguese version available.(Paper: Review of International Political Economy)
1995. A discussion of development economics ideas and of Word Bank's neo-liberal turn in the early 1980s. English version available. (Paper: Revista de Economia Política) *
1995. The first paper on the 1995-98 Public Management Reform. The crisis of the state requiring to rebuild state capacity. A critique of the bureaucratic model. A first glimpse on the model that would be drawn in the Plano Diretor... and in Da Administração Burocrática... Spanish version available.Texto para Discussão ENAP
1996. With Gilberto Tadeu Lima. While microeconomics is logic-deductive, macroeconomics is a historical discipline, requiring an inductive-deductive approach. (Paper: Revista de Economia Política) *