The Brazil Studies Program at Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for
Latin American Studies 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
This event is part of the Harvard-MIT Workshop on the Political Economy
of Development in Brazil which 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.
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Schools in Brazil
Presentation by
Jessica Acosta, A.B. in Romance Langugages and Literatures
('10). In the Sumer of 2009 Jessica participated in the Brazil Studies
Program Public Policy Immersion Program (PPIP). She developed an on
site research project for Fundação Lemann on the social and economic
development of public education in low income areas of São Paulo.
Jessica Villegas, A.B. in Social Anthropology ('11). In the
Sumer of 2009 Jessica participated in the Brazil Studies Program Public
Policy Immersion Program (PPIP). She developed an on site research
project for Associação Vaga Lume, a non-profit that develops projects
on education in the Amazon.
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Screening of the documentary Pro Dia Nascer Feliz
Directed by João Jardim, this emotional documentary follows a group of
teenagers in Brazil from different socio-economic backgrounds as they
confront the challenges of being in school. In a series of very
intimate interviews, rich and poor 14-17 year-old students from São
Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Pernambuco open their hearts revealing
contradictory emotions concerning prejudice, violence, anxiety, hope
and love. More than the sum of its parts, Pro Dia Nascer Feliz is an
in depth analysis of the challenges to education in Brazil. As the
focal point in the film, the school brings together students, parents,
teachers as well as representatives of the state who are trying to make
a name for themselves. But the persistence of social inequality in
Brazil and ineffective public administration paints a very grim picture
of the country’s future.
Date: Tuesday, December 8
Time: 6:00-8:00pm
Location: BELFER Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street - HARVARD
Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi@fas.harvard.edu
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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 Resource Room S216 - CGIS South Building, 1730
Cambridge Street - HARVARD
Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi@fas.harvard.edu
This event is part of the Harvard-MIT Workshop on the Political Economy
of Development in Brazil which 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.