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Tag: University of Chicago

  • Tuesday, November 13th 2018 - 10:42 UTC

    Bolsonaro's economic team incorporates another Chicago orthodox liberal

    Joaquim Levy joined the World Bank Group in February 2016; he previously served as Brazil’s finance minister under President Dilma Rousseff

    Joaquim Levy, managing director and World Bank chief financial officer, has been tapped to be the next president of Brazil’s national economic and social development bank BNDES, news advanced to a column in daily O Estado de S. Paulo published on Sunday.

  • Tuesday, October 2nd 2018 - 08:58 UTC

    The possible economic options behind Bolsonaro and Haddad

    Haddad has acknowledged he would dump the labor and spending reforms of unpopular outgoing President Michel Temer

    Behind Brazil's polarized presidential election, and unpredictable result, the business class in Latin America's largest economy looking for clear signals of what can be expected as of 2019 either from the former army captain Jair Bolsonaro or from economist Fernando Haddad, handpicked by Lula da Silva as his successor. Hopefully not a choice between “awful” and “extremely awful”