O Acordo sobre a Dívida Externa e a Crise do Governo

1991. Depoimento perante a Comissão de Finanças do Senado. Brasília, 7 de maio de 1991.

Comentários sobre o Relatório da Comissão Sul: Entre o Nacionalismo e o Consenso de Washington

1992. Debate com Celso Furtado no Instituto de Estudos Avançados da USP, sobre o Relatório da Comissão "Desafio ao Sul".

Resenha para Japão: O Capital se faz em casa

1991. Resenha sobre o livro de Barbosa Lima Sobrinho (Revista de Economia Política 12(2), abril 1992).

Prefácio para Ensaios de Economia Monetária

1992 - Preface to book by Fernando Nogueira da Costa.

Alternativa para as moratórias não-declaradas

1990. Brazil is since 1989 in the situation of default. Given that the Brady Plan offers just a small reduction in the debt, and the market discount is 30%, some unilateral initiative from Brazil is required. (Note: Folha de S.Paulo)

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O tigre não morreu (Folha, 27.05.90)

1990. As early as April I said that the Plano Collor failed to control high inflation, despite its strong fiscal and monetary adjustment. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo, 27/5)

As Incertezas do Plano Collor

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

Le Brésil à la derive du monde

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).

Resenha para A Revolução Indesejada: Conflito Distributivo e Mercado de Trabalho

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

Vamos sair da crise

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.

Resenha de Igreja Católica e Política no Brasil

1989. Review to book by Scott Mainwaring.

Expériences d'un gouvernement: le ministère des Finances au Brésil

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)

The third world debt: a dangerous game

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.

Solving the Debt Crisis: Debt Relief and Adjustment

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

Posfácio para Dolarization et Desindustrialization

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

Experiências de um governo

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)

Uma estratégia alternativa para negociar a dívida externa

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)

A Brazilian approach to external debt negotiation - 1987

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)

Duas questões básicas sobre a dívida externa

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)

A mudança do papel do Estado na economia brasileira

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