Harvard-MIT Workshop on the Political Economy of Development in
Brazil presents
Unexpected successes, unanticipated failures: Social policy from
Cardoso to Lula
Presentation by Marcus André Melo, Yale University and Federal
University of Pernambuco (UFPE). He is the author of Reformas
Constitucionais no Brasil Instituições Políticas e Processo Decisório,
Revan. He has recently co-authored The Political Economy of Fiscal
Reforms in Brazil, IADB, WP 117, 2009; and chapters in Mark
Hallerberg et al eds. Who decides the budget the political economy
analysis of the budget process in Latin America, DRCLAS-Harvard
University Press, 2009; and E Stein and M Tommasi eds., Policy-making
in Latin America: how policy shapes policy, DRCLAS-Harvard University
Press, 2008.
Date: Tuesday, December 8
Time: 4 p.m.
Location: Lucian Pye Conference Room, E40-496 - MIT
Contact: Karina Xavier, kxavier@MIT.EDU
Reception to follow talk.
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Privatized Subsoil Rights in Brazil
Presentation by Professor Gail Triner, Associate Professor of
History, Rutgers University. Prof. Triner is author of Banking and
Economic Development: Brazil, 1889-1930 (Palgrave Press, 2000). Her
research interests include the economic history of Brazil, emphasizing
finance, property rights and the environment, as well as the
comparative history of Latin American banking.
Date: Friday, December 11
Time: 4:00-6:00pm
Location: DRCLAS Resouvce Room S216 - CGIS South Building, 1730
Cambridge Street - HARVARD
Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi@fas.harvard.edu
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The Harvard-MIT Workshop on the Political Economy of Development in
Brazil is led by Professors Aldo Musacchio (Associate Professor and
Marvin Bower Fellow, Harvard Business School) and Ben Ross Schneider
(Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology), the new Harvard-MIT Workshop seeks to promote an ongoing
interdisciplinary academic exchange among professors, students, and
practitioners in the Cambridge-Boston area with speakers who are
experts on the political economy of development in Brazil.