DISCURSO DE POSSE DO NOVO MINISTRO DA FAZENDA
1987. Ao assumir o Ministerio da Fazenda, honrado pela confiança do Presidente da República e de meu partido, o PMDB, estou plenamente consciente das dificuldades que terei de enfrentar e das responsabilidades que estou assumindo.
2024. As múltiplas faces de um gestor, policy-maker e intelectual. Uma análise muito favorável para mim.
2019-Thirty year ago the Brady Plan solved the great 1980s' Foreign Debt Crisis. The Plan was entirely based in the proposal that I, as Finance Minister of Brazil, made in October 1987. The Secretary of the Treasury of the time, James Backer, rejected it, but 18 months later the new Secretary, Nicholas Brady, took it entirely. Read the full history in "A turning point for the debt crisis". Nota no Facebook, 22.4.2019
2008. Exposição no seminário Desenvolvimento econômico: crescimento com distribuição de renda em comemoração aos 200 anos do Ministério da Fazenda, ESAF, Brasília, 8, 9 e 10 de setembro de 2008 publicado no livro 200 anos - Ministério da Fazenda: Os Ministros - Rio de Janeiro: Editora FGV, 2010. pp. 47-58.
2006. (Letter). Leia também o artigo de Roberto Giannetti a que me refiro nesta carta.
Revista Isto É - Dinheiro, 13.1.1999.
1995. An account of the 1987 negotiation of the debt crisis. Brazil presented a proposal of debt securitization which represented a turning point in the debt crisis, and was the Brady Plan 18 months later. (Paper: Revista de Economia Política) *
1989. The discount offered by the Brady Plan to the highly indebted countries is insuficient. (Article: Exame)
1989. The Brady Plan is a correct but incomplete policy to solve de debt crisis. (Article: IstoÉ-Senhor, 22.3.1989)
1989. Testimony to the US House of Representatives, Washington, January 1989 *
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)
Washington, DC, September 30, 1987.
Paper (1987) Second draft of Brazil's proposal of securitization of the foreign debt of the highly indebted countries, which was rejected by the Secretary of the Treasury, James Baker, in September 1987, but turned into the 1989 Bady Plan which solved the Foreign Debt Crisis.
