In a time when the world is still looking for a clear and definitive solution to the largest financial crisis since the Crash of 1929, the governments of Brazil and of other emerging-market countries have been given unusual political voice in global debates. But what interests and ideas has Brazil been vocalizing in such fora?
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31 Oct 2009 / Carlos Pio
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31 Oct 2009 / Leany Barreiro Lemos
With Brazilian Central Bank Governor Henrique Meirelles visiting Oxford to give the GEG Annual Lecture this week, Leany Lemos lays out the four big challenges facing Brazil as it navigates the global economy.
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26 Oct 2009 / Ngaire Woods
The G20 leaders have met three times, giving the IMF $1 trillion of new resources with which to fight the fires of the global financial crisis. The World Bank has also been put on the job – to respond to what the World Bank and IMF have called a “development emergency”.
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19 Oct 2009 / Ngaire Woods
*UPDATE 15 Feb 2010*: Poul Nyrup Rasmussen’s lecture is now available online. To listen to the audio or watch the video of The post-crisis politics of financial reform: business as usual or new global order?, visit the OpenSpires project. You can also find it on iTunes U and via the University of Oxford’s podcasts.
Will Poul Nyrup Rasmussen inflame the [...]
