NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

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

2005. Brazil was a nation for some time, but, today, she must reinvented herself as a nation if she wants to resume growth. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2005. The Brazilian IDH is improving not because income is increasing but because since the transition to democracy (1985) a major effort is being made in the area of social expenditures. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2005. My personal relations with Ignacio Rangel. Article written in the moment of the publication of his complete works. (Article: Primeira Leitura).

2005. Prediction that José Serra will be the new president of Brazil in 2007, and that PSDB should only make a coalition after the elections, not before.(Interview: Folha)

2005. The political crisis will not entail an economic crisis because it is a 'government's crisis', not a crisis of the state or the property system. (Article: Folha).

2005. The probable outcome of this political crisis will be the impeachment, despite the fact that the rich and the politicians are not interested in it.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2005. Civil society usually has many voices, but, when it becomes indignant, as it is becoming recently, it may have a unique voice. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2005 China evluated 2,1% the yuan, but this does not mean that she will submit to the US. The secret of her enormous growth has been to reject foreign savings and foreing advices.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2005. The policy of the Brazilian government on graduate studies is rather concerned with the quantity than with the quality of PhDs. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2005. The zero nominal deficit policy only makes sense if it is part of a strategy of civilized basic interest rate.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2005.6. The 'no' was as much a reaction of the French and the Dutch to excessive enlargement of Europe as a victory of Britain and US that support such enlargement to make EU weaker. (Article: just published just here)

2005.6. The 'no' was as much a reaction of the French and the Dutch to excessive enlargement of Europe as a victory of Britain and US that support such enlargement to make EU weaker. (Published just here)

2005. As inflation in the time of president Itamar Franco, today the Selic interest rate Selic is the Brazil's scourge. Itamar Franco changed finance ministers four times to find one able to control inflation. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2005. The Lula administration faces a second major legitimacy crisis, loses support in civil socity, and becomes unable to really govern.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo

2005. In this small article I drafted for the first time my model of the Dutch disease with two equilibrium exchange rates. And related it with deindustrialization and quasi-stagnation. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).

2005. Today, given the administration's political inconsistency and fragility, there is no government but the state continues to function normally.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo).

2005. The Lula administrtion cannot avoid exchange rate appreciation because it is trapped by its policy on the interest rate. To buy dollars is impossible given the financial costs involved.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2005. Between the neo-liberal ideology and the old left's beliefs there is a third discourse asking for a consistent national strategy of growth.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2005. Democracy was enable to overcome the quasi-stagnation of the Brazilian economy, but it allows for consensus that, once achieved, will do that.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo)