Brazil Institute Publication: “Emerging Powers: India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA) and the Future of South-South Cooperation”

Due to the current trends of political and economic restructuring, South-South cooperation is expected to play an increasingly important role in the post-recession world. India, Brazil, and South Africa (IBSA) established a dialogue forum to increase multilateral collaboration on a number of issues, especially those relating to development.
Based on a half-day conference on IBSA, the [...]

Brazil and USA have their hands tied in Honduras by Paulo Sotero

On October 16th, 2009 the Brazil Institute’s director, Paulo Sotero, wrote an op-ed in the Estado de São Paulo on the situation in Honduras.
Op-ed by Brazilian journalist Paulo Sotero, director of the Brazil Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, says that Brazil and the United States not only have been [...]

Brazil Institute Publication: Climate Change and Biofuel

Recent debates have bashed the push from oil to biofuel, claiming that the “cures might be worse than the disease.” While many have lost time debating ethanol’s potential problems, however, Brazil’s sugarcane industry has diligently worked to find solutions. In the Brazil Institute’s new Special Report, “Climate Change and Biofuels,” the Brazilian sugarcane industry responds, [...]

Here’s how Obama can aid Latin economies

Andres Oppenheimer-Miami Herald, 04/12/2009
When President Barack Obama meets with 33 hemispheric leaders at the Summit of the Americas later this week, most media attention will focus on whether there will be a thaw in U.S. ties with Venezuela and Cuba.
But the No. 1 issue for most participating leaders will be how to prevent a Latin [...]

Paulo Sotero on Globo News Painel

Hosted by William Waak, three panelists, Eduardo Giannetti Ibmec-SP, Paulo Tenani FGV-SP, Paulo Sotero Woodrow Wilson Center, discuss the financial crisis and Brazil’s role in coordinating international action.
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What Lula can Teach ‘White People’

Paulo Sotero-ForeignPolicy.com, 04/01/2009
When Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva last week blamed “white people with blue eyes” for the global economic meltdown, it was an odd gaffe for a leader known and respected around the world for his pragmatism. ‘Lula had a Chávez day,’ wrote the São Paulo daily Estadao, discounting the unfortunate utterance [...]

BRIC Shoppers Can’t Hold Off World Recession: Alexandre Marinis

COMMENTARY:Alexandre Marinis-Bloomberg, 12/18/2008
Disregard what you may have heard about how consumers living in the big four emerging market countries — Brazil, Russia, India and China — will rescue the world’s developed nations from recession. That won’t happen. What’s more, their programs to spur domestic consumption are useless and may backfire.
The so-called BRIC group of nations [...]

What Lula and Obama can do (Portuguese)

In this Op-ed, Director of the Brazil Institute, Paulo Sotero, discusses how a possible conclusion to the Doha Round has been sidelined by the global financial crisis, addresses the subsequent and misguided finger-pointing , and proposes three areas of cooperation for Presidents Lula and Obama: global warming, Africa and Cuba.
Paulo Sotero-O Estado de S.Paulo, 12/17/2008
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Three-part Series on Brazil

The first part of a Christian Science Monitor three-part series on Brazil was featured on an earlier post. The second and third part follow.
South-South Cooperation between Brazil and African countries is not limited to Agricultural know-how of EMBRAPA. The poor in Brazil are growing at Chinese rates-9 percent/year-and the Gini coeficient is slowing declining. Not [...]

Dani Rodrik: Save the Emerging Markets

Dani Rodrik-Business Standard, 11/12/2008
If the world were fair, most emerging markets would be watching the financial crisis engulfing the world’s advanced economies from the sidelines — if not entirely unaffected, not overly concerned either. For once, what has set financial markets ablaze are not their excesses, but those of Wall Street.
Emerging markets’ external and fiscal [...]