Tag Archives: Brazil

Michael Roberts reports from Brazil. The emerging economies are under the gun (of the the US).Michael Roberts BlogBrazil: austerity, debt and tradeMichael Roberts

Three hundred academics and public intellectuals joined to launch a manifesto denouncing the detention of the former Brazilian president and current Presidential candidate Lula da Silva. The petition discusses in detail the arbitrary nature of the trial conducted by Judge Sergio Moro against Lula da Silva, stating that he is nothing less than a political prisoner. The document asserts that the international community should treat him as such and demands his immediate release. Read...

Meanwhile in Brazil meet Jair Bolsonaro.The InterceptLula Goes to Prison, Deepening Brazil’s Political Crisis — as Military Waits in the Wings Leandro Demori

Brazilian-style"justice" comparable to Brazilian-stlye jiu-jitsu? According to Brazilian law if you have a conviction underway, that appeal process underway, you can't run for office. But if you're already in jail you can run for office. So Lula has announced that he is going to declare his candidacy anyway. And it's not unprecedented for political prisoners to win elections.... TRNNUnder Threat of Military Coup, Brazil's Supreme Court Sends Lula to Prison Sharmini Peries interviews Brian...

Backgrounder on Brazil. This is also a challenge for BRICS in addition to Brazil, since all of these countries have a significant and endemic corruption problem. Naked KeynesianismGoodbye Lula?Matias Vernengo | Associate Professor of Economics, Bucknell University

"We are building the Anti-Lula." "So are we." In October 2002, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won Brazil’s presidential election and famously argued that hope had defeated fear. In fact, to preempt the fears of local and international finance elites, which threatened capital flight if the Workers’ Party (PT) candidate won, Lula had already signed the infamous “Letter to the Brazilian People” in which he pledged to follow relatively orthodox economic policies. Predictions about his...

A new paper by Julia Braga, that she will present at the next Eastern Association Economic Meeting in Boston. From the abstract: "This paper investigates the role of demand in the productive investment evolution in the Brazilian economy. First, it assesses the long-run relationship between investment rate and GDP growth, taking annual data since 1962 until 2015. We then construct a “Final Demand” index and estimate its impact on productive investment growth rate, taking quarterly data...

Brazil slips back to banana republic status.CounterpunchBrazil’s Democracy Pushed Toward the AbyssMark Weisbrot

Downhill I have not written on the problems in the region for a while now (last stuff that is more comprehensive here in the talk at Keene, for example), in part, because the whole theme is a bit depressing (more recently the Honduras crisis, and the return of the right in Chile). As I have noted before, there is no doubt that the collapse of commodity prices has played a significant role in the downturn in the region, but it is also true that a lot of the problems are political in...

IPA has an opening for a Country Director for our Sierra Leone and Liberia offices (above photo comes from the former). A lot of interesting projects are happening there and our offices there have historically worked very well with the governments. I’ll let Rachel Glennerster describe it: But the best reason is the amazing staff, here’s Jishnu Das talking about the Liberia office’s recent high profile RCT of public-private partnership schools there: Finding children who have left a school...