SHORT TEXTS

1991. A positive assessment of the Collor Plan 60 days after it was anounced. (Paper: Revista Brasileira de Economia)

1990. After the 1980s major crisis and the exhaustion of the national developmentalist strategy Brazil needs a new international strategy based on a political (not an economic) alliance with United States while protecting our national economic interests. (Published notes for two Paris conferences).

1991. Review to book by José Márcio Camargo e Carlos Alberto Ramos. Rio de Janeiro, Campus, 1990.

1989. Debate no programa "Vamos Sair da Crise" da TV Gazeta de São Paulo e da TV Capital de Brasília. em 1989, às vésperas da primeira eleição presidencial após 29 anos.

1989. Review to book by Scott Mainwaring.

1989. A testimony to IUPERJ on the author's experience as Finance Minister in Brazil. I receive the finance ministry when the Great Debt Crisis of the 1980s reaches its peak with the failure of the Cruzado Plan. The emergence "Bresser Plan", and the negotiation of the foreign debt. Available in Portuguese, and in an extended version. (Published in Problèmes d'Amérique Latine)

1989. Third world debt is so high that only its securitization with a discount in the line proposed in 1987 by me as finance minister of Brazil will solve the problem.

1989. Testimony to the US House of Representatives, Washington, January 1989 *

1988. Postface à le livre de Pierre Salama, Dollarisation e Desindustrialization: les Effet Pervers des Politiques dAjustement.

1988. A testimony to IUPERJ (Wanderley Guilherme dos Santos) on the authors experience as Finance Minister of Brazil. Available in French, and also an extended and revised version.(Discussion paper, IUPERJ)

1989.The 1987 negotiation of the foreign debt was guided by a question ("is the payment of interests consistent with the economic growth of Brazil?"), and by the idea of securityzing the debt with a discount. English version available. (Note in my edited book Dívida Externa: Crise e Soluções)

1988. The 1987 negotiation of the foreign debt was guided by a question ("is the payment of interest consistent with the economic growth of Brazil?"), and by the idea of securitizing the debt with a discount. Portuguese version available. (Note: LASA Forum)

1988. The two basic questions on the foreign debt are, first, if Brazil has the possibility of fully honoring it without major economic losses (it has not); second, who is supposed to have the initiative (it is Brazil, we cannot wait on creditors). (Note: Economia em Perspectiva)

1988. Between 1930 and 1980 the state was an instrument of growth, but since then, it became an obstacle. (Note in edited book)

1988. Conferência em seminário sobre a intregração Brasil-Argentina patrocinado pela Faculdade Latino Americana de Ciências Sociais (Flacso), Buenos Aires, 20 e 21 de outubro de 1988.

1988. Creditor countries are beginning to realize that a initiative involving debt reduction is necessary, but they seem paralyzed. Debtor countries must also participate from a concerted solution. (Introduction to non-published book)

1987. December. Resignation letter from the Ministry.

Pronunciamento na Reunião do Conselho de Desenvolvimento Econômico. Junho 1987.

1987.