The Robert L. Heilbroner Middle for Capitalism Research, SCEPA, and the Reconvexo Collective invite you to:
“Challenges to overcoming inequality in Brazil: A dialog with Nelson Barbosa, former Minister of Finance of Brazil”
With Nelson Barbosa and Marcelo Medeiros
After
a few years of lowering earnings inequality and poverty ranges, Brazil
is once more going through a worsening of its poverty indicators. Based on the
Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the variety of
individuals in Brazil with an earnings beneath the World Financial institution Poverty Line
elevated, on common, by a million yearly between 2015 and 2018.
This seminar is a chance to debate the current financial and
political adjustments in Brazil, and the way they’ll have an effect on earnings distribution
and poverty indicators.
Thursday, December 12, 2019
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Wolff Convention Room, Room D1103
Albert and Vera Checklist Educational Middle
6 E sixteenth Road, New York, NY 10003
Speaker: Nelson Barbosa (EESP/FGV, UnB, former Minister of Finance of Brazil)
Discussant: Marcelo Medeiros (Princenton College)
Nelson
Barbosa: Professor on the São Paulo Faculty of Economics (EESP/FGV) and
the College of Brasilia (UnB), Brazil. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics
from the New Faculty for Social Analysis and his analysis pursuits
embrace macroeconomic coverage, financial progress and improvement. Dr.
Barbosa was Deputy Finance Minister, Planning Minister and Finance
Minister throughout Dilma Rousseff’s administration, and Secretary of
Financial Coverage and Monitoring throughout Lula’s administration. He
at present writes a weekly column on economics for Folha de Sao Paulo,
Brazil’s largest newspaper.
Marcelo Medeiros: Visiting Professor at Princeton College. His analysis focuses on social inequalities. Medeiros has authored, co-authored, and edited quite a few books, guide chapters and peer-reviewed articles within the areas of social inequality and mobility, demography, well being, training, poverty, improvement concept, and incapacity and social safety.
