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The New International Scenario and Brazil’s Foreign Policy

From

30
2:00 pm October 2019

To

30
6:15 pm October 2019

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The Policy Center for the New South and its Brazilian partner CINDES will host a joint seminar in Rio de Janeiro, titled “The New International Scenario and Brazil’s Foreign Policy”, on Wednesday October 30th, 2019, at 14:00.

This seminar will be composed of two panels:

The first one will highlight the new international scenario and its implications for Brazil and other developing countries, by addressing the economic dimension of the foreign policy (trade and investments), trying to identify the likely implications of the presidential elections for Brazil’s trade and investment policies in general and with different regions and countries.

The second panel will be addressing the new Brazilian foreign policy by tackling the main features of Brazil’s new economic foreign policy, the new foreign policy in political and climate-related fields as well as the implications of the new policy for South American countries and other developing regions.

 

AGENDA

14:00 – 14:15

Opening remarks

Eduardo Amaral Haddad, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South
Pedro da Motta Veiga, President, CINDES

14:15 – 16:00

The new international scenario and its implications for Brazil and other developing countries

This session will discuss the implications for Brazil and other developing countries of the changing international scenario in the areas of trade and investment, climate change and energy.

Speakers:

Eduardo Amaral Haddad, Policy Center for the New South, (Download Presentation)
Adilson de Oliveira, CINDES / Institute of Economics, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (IE-UFRJ)
Fernando Ribeiro, Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA)
Eduardo Viola, CINDES/UNB

Q&A session

16:00 – 16:15

Coffee break

16:15 – 18:00

The new Brazilian foreign policy

This session will highlight the recent evolution of Brazilian foreign policy in its different dimensions, including the economic one. It will also discuss its implications for Brazil's relations with South American countries, especially Argentina.

Speakers:

Ricardo Markwald, Foundation for Foreign Trade Studies Center (FUNCEX)
Pedro da Motta Veiga, CINDES
Sandra Polonia Rios, CINDES
Matias Spektor, Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV-SP)

Q&A session

18:00 – 18:15

Concluding remarks

Eduardo Amaral Haddad, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South
Pedro da Motta Veiga, President, CINDES

 

Speakers
Eduardo Amaral Haddad
Senior Fellow
Eduardo A. Haddad is Full Professor at the Department of Economics at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, where he directs the Regional and Urban Economics Lab (NEREUS). He is additionally a Affiliate Professor at the Faculty of Governance, Economic and Social Sciences of the Mohammed VI University. He also holds a position as Affiliate Research Professor at the Regional Economics Applications Laboratory – REAL – at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is a Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, Rabat, Morocco. Prof. Haddad has published widely in professional journals on regional and interregional input-output analysis, computable general equilibrium modeling, and various aspects of regional economic development in developing countries; he ...
Pedro da Motta Veiga
President, CINDES
Pedro da Motta Veiga is the President of CINDES – Centro for Studies on Integration and Development – an independent think tank based in Rio de Janeiro and working on trade, investment and global issues. He is also Senior Fellow at CEBRI – the Brazilian Center for International Relations, a non-resident fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy – Latin America Initiative, and a partner at Ecostrat, a consulting firm. ...