NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

2008. Lula's new industrial policy is welcomed, but it dos not replace a non-competitive exchange rate.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2008. The 1968 Student Revolution represented the end, not the beginning, of a major post-war social and political change. After, the world experienced a conservative counter-revolution. Article O Estado de S.Paulo.

2008. The new nationalist leaders in Latin America face major obstacles. It is more difficult to govern poor than middle income countries. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).

2008. The failure of neo-liberal reforms in causing growth, the Irak war, and now the banking crisis mark the decline of the United States as hegemon and the end of the neo-liberal ideological wave. (Artiicle: Folha de S.Paulo)

2008. The tax on exports in Argentina to neutralize the Dutch disease is not really paid by farmers because if it was eliminated the exchange rate would fall down and farmers would be in worse situation. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).

2008. It seems that Lula is understanding that the present exchange rate represents a real danger for the country. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2008. The manufacturing industry is growing while it is prematurely desindustrializing due to moderate but not neutralized Dutch disease. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).

2008. Ignacy Sachs, um grande intelectual, rejeita a torre de marfim da universidade e mergulha na prática, sempre em defesa dos seus ideais. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2008. The present financial crisis is probably the worst since 1929 because it adds a banking crisis to a long term current account deficit in the US that reduced trust in the dollar. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo 11.2.08).

2007. Costs involved in sustainable development are not as high as countries resisting to cooperate assume. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2007. While in Brazil we celebrate our 5% growth this years, ignoring exploding imports and falling exports, international prospects are somber given the financial crisis and the fall of the dollar. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2007. Chavez has an authoritarian personality but the political regime in Venezuela is minimally democratic. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo, written before Chavez was defeated in the referendum).

2007. End year good sales are making people to believe in the local Dr. Panglosses. Unhapilly, the current exchange rate is inconsistent with such optimis. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2007. It a mistake to believe that Lula is working for a third mandate. He knows that democracy is consolidated in Brazil, and that such constitutional amendment has no chance of being approved. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo,5.11.2007)

2007. Palavras na homenagem a Chopin Tavares de Lima. São Paulo, Memorial da América Latina, 29 de outubro de 2007.

2007. When multinaltionals profit remittances soar, we should remember that foreign savings do not cause growth, and that we are offering our domestic market free to these corporations. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2007. Response to the Carta do IBRE of the previous month cricizing my proposal of using a variable export tax do neutralize the Dutch disease (Conjuntura Econômica, October)

2007. The "state foundations" (fundações estatais)are welcome because they show that the Lula administration accepted the "social organizations" concept to offer social and scientific services. Yet, public hospitals should be transformed immediately in social organizations, instead of waiting that the new law is approved. (Article Folha de S.Paulo).

2007. It is possible and desirable to have a national agreement assuring a more competitive exchange rate. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).

2007. IMF and World Bank are dead institutions. The former engaged in the growth cum foreign savings policy the later, with neo-liberal reforms. Both represent the interest of the rich countries. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)