August 25th - 26th, 2005
Brazil is suffering from an endemic lack of productivity in its massive social spending that currently absorbs 25% of GDP while not reducing poverty. In Brazil, the conflicts between generations, the tendencies of projects to divert from their purposes, corporatism, and a failure to follow through with necessary reforms represent causes for the shortcomings of social spending.
To address this important theme and suggest necessary solutions for Brazil, the Fernand Braudel Institute of World Economics brought to the country professor Peter H. Lindert, of the University of California/Davis, author of Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the 18th Century (Cambridge University Press, 2004), one of the most respected analysts of social spending in the world, who togheter with Brazilian specialists discussed this theme from an international perspective
Learn more about what was discussed on the conference and see the presented material (in portuguese)