2007. Brazil is not growing well but just profiting from world economy's prosperity to follow behind.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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. 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. 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. 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).
2007. Finally, Brazil has a nationalist representative at IMF. Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr. will face many other nationalist in Washington, although none will admit it.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
2007. Given the exchange rate and the interest rate, the Brazilian industry is condemned to quasi-stagnation. PAC is Ok, but will not solve the problem. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)
2007. Caio Prado Jr. was a major historian of Brazilian mercantilism, but he didn't understand the after 1930 Brazil made its industrial revolution and overcome mercantilism. (Article: Folha, Mais!)
2007. Commercial globalization is a major opportunity for developing countries, financial globalization, a disaster. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)
2007. Conventional orthodoxy's new "discovery": the cause of quasi-stagnation in Brazil is corruption, not the high interest rate nor the low exchange rate. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).