2008. The present financial crisis is probably the worst since 1929 because it adds a banking crisis to a long term current account deficit in the US that reduced trust in the dollar. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo 11.2.08).
OTHER TYPES OF WORKS
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
2007. Costs involved in sustainable development are not as high as countries resisting to cooperate assume. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)
2007. While in Brazil we celebrate our 5% growth this years, ignoring exploding imports and falling exports, international prospects are somber given the financial crisis and the fall of the dollar. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)
2007. Chavez has an authoritarian personality but the political regime in Venezuela is minimally democratic. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo, written before Chavez was defeated in the referendum).
2007. End year good sales are making people to believe in the local Dr. Panglosses. Unhapilly, the current exchange rate is inconsistent with such optimis. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)
2007. It a mistake to believe that Lula is working for a third mandate. He knows that democracy is consolidated in Brazil, and that such constitutional amendment has no chance of being approved. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo,5.11.2007)
2007. Palavras na homenagem a Chopin Tavares de Lima. São Paulo, Memorial da América Latina, 29 de outubro de 2007.
2007. When multinaltionals profit remittances soar, we should remember that foreign savings do not cause growth, and that we are offering our domestic market free to these corporations. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)
2007. Response to the Carta do IBRE of the previous month cricizing my proposal of using a variable export tax do neutralize the Dutch disease (Conjuntura Econômica, October)
2007. The "state foundations" (fundações estatais)are welcome because they show that the Lula administration accepted the "social organizations" concept to offer social and scientific services. Yet, public hospitals should be transformed immediately in social organizations, instead of waiting that the new law is approved. (Article Folha de S.Paulo).
2007. It is possible and desirable to have a national agreement assuring a more competitive exchange rate. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
2007. IMF and World Bank are dead institutions. The former engaged in the growth cum foreign savings policy the later, with neo-liberal reforms. Both represent the interest of the rich countries. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)
2007. The August 2007 financial crisis marks the end of the extraordinary growth cycle that the world economy experienced in the last five years.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
2007. Regulatory agencies are necessary just to determine prices of monopolistic industries. Almost all agencies that in Brazil are viewed as regulatory are effectively exective agencies.(Article Folha de S.Paulo, 13.8.2007)
2007. Debate with Ilan Goldfajn a good way of comparing new developmentalism and conventional orthodoxy. (Two pages in O Estado de S.Paulo)
2007. Tariffs are often not protectionist but compensate an overvalued currency. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
2007. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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).