NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

2003 One does not have to be populist, nor statist, nor radical to be Left: it is enough to be committed to the poor and to social justice (Fabian Review, vol. 115 (1), Spring 2003).

2003. Although necessary, social security reform will not produce short term results. Changing macroeconomic policy should be government's major priority (Folha de S.Paulo, 26.1.2003).

The new finance minister tends to maintain the present macroeconomic policy. He does not realize that the alternative is not orthodoxy x populism, but the adoption of a competent macroeconomic policy involving moderate interest rates. (Valor Econômico, 26.12.2002).

2002. The Lula administration probably means the rise of third popular political pact in Brazil since 1930. Vargas "national developmentalism"
between 1930 and 1959 and the "Diretas Já" pact between 1977 and 1986 were
the other two popular political coalitions. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).

2002. The 1995 reform of the public administration will certainly have new unfoldings in the next government, but the general line could not be another than the modern public administration.(Correio Braziliense, 2.12.2002).

2002. In interview, former-minister says that the PT was elect ' to change the mistake politics' (O Estado de S.Paulo, 28.12.2002).

The quality of new institutions depends on compromise and public debate, as we saw in the Cardoso administration. This will not be different in the Lula administration (Folha de S.Paulo, 12.11.2002).

In interview Bresser-Pereira criticizes Malan's economic policy and says that it will cause the widely predicti defeat of PSDB's candidate, José Serra.(Folha de S.Paulo, 23.10.2002)

In interview, Bresser-Pereira says that, given the possibility that Brazil is forced to default by foreign creditors, the administration should have prepared a B Plan in order to protect the internal economy. We must not and should not repeat the Argentinean experience (Folha de S.Paulo, 16.10.2002).

2002. In his last book, Celso Furtado criticizes Brazilians' elites tendency to copy the North's consumption patterns. I add that they also uncritically adopt the correspondent ideas. (Folha de S.Paulo, 20.9.2002).

Na primeira metade dos anos 90 estamos assistindo, na América Latina, à progressiva superação da grande crise dos anos 80 (Nueva Sociedad - Caracas, Setembro 2002).

2002. As elites têm medo da estabilização. Empresários, líderes sindicais, políticos, altos burocratas desejam o controle da inflação (Folha de S.Paulo, 12.9.2002).

Bresser Pereira critica o Fundo por ter promovido políticas insustentáveis de endividamento.
O Estado de S.Paulo, 25.8.2002