This book assesses the performance of the first Lula government (2002-06) from different perspectives including economics, politics, history and social policy. While the focus is on Brazil, it also refers to the experiences of similar countries both for comparative purposes and for evidence of...

Over the last thirty years or so the developments in the area of monetary and macroeconomic policies have been quite substantial. Within the new consensus macroeconomics (NCM), monetary policy is upgraded while fiscal policy is downgraded. This new monetary policy has been the main instrument of...

The focus of this contribution is on macroeconomic and financial policies. It relies on fiscal, monetary and financial stability policies, which aim to develop sustainable and resilient market economies. This contribution relies on our macroeconomic model, which accounts for the financial...