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Economic perspectives for Brazil in 2020

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6:00 am January 2020

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8:00 am January 2020

Our Senior Fellow, Otaviano Canuto, who previously served as a vice president and Executive Director of the World Bank, Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund, and as a vice president at the Inter-American Development Bank, will give a presentation on economic perspectives for Brazil in 2020, to a floor of scholars and students from Columbia University. The roundtable will take at Columbia University, New York, on Wednesday 29th, January.

This year can be a decisive one for Brazil’s transition to a more robust and sustainable growth path – but only if the government commits to fiscal and structural reform. If Brazil’s leaders fail to take this opportunity to lay the foundations for long-term prosperity, it may not be long before the economy stalls again.

Read more about Otaviano Canuto’s perspectives on Brazil’s economy here : https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/brazil-fiscal-structural-reform-productivity-by-otaviano-canuto-2020-01

Speakers
Otaviano Canuto
Senior Fellow
Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, principal at Center for Macroeconomics and Development and non-resident fellow at Brookings Institute. Former Vice President and Executive Director at the World Bank, Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Vice President at the Inter-American Development Bank. He was also Deputy Minister for international affairs at Brazil’s Ministry of Finance, as well as professor of economics at University of São Paulo (USP) and University of Campinas (UNICAMP). ...