The second coffee valorization was atypical among other valorization operations of the First Republic. The context in which it was undertaken, marked by the First World War and its repercussions on international trade and financial markets, forced the support of coffee prices to be financed with...

In a period of harsh political-economic crisis, in Brazil, and in which several interpretations of their causes emerge, this paper tries to explain these turbulences considering their deeper long run roots and developments, presenting a retrospective of the associated and subordinated evolution...

This article aims to show that, by analyzing both the historical development of regional integration processes in Latin America and the political and economic ideas behind them, ECLAC's ideas, from the 1950's and 1960's, about what features Latin American integration should present - a...

With the external accounts problems reasonably solved, Brazil’s economic policy agenda is bound to be increasingly focused on fiscal issues. What makes the design of economic policy especially complex in this area is the fact that there are several superimposed and potentially conflicting...

In this paper we look for the historical genesis of Argentina's crisis. We argue that the economic liberalization model, implicit of the Convertibility Plan, has its roots in establishment of the agro-exporting economy on which, between the end of the 19th century and the first decades of the...

This paper showed that the credit market grew not only in amount of money following the population growth of the city, as also supplanting. The financing conditions had also tended to improve in the studied period, with the reduction of the taxes of interests and allonge of the stated period,...

Economic stabilization generates conditions, though necessary not sufficient, to sustainable growth. From the 60s onwards, the trade-off between stability and economic growth (recognized nowadays as a temporary one, without contents that could enable it to orientate the economic policy) has been...

The origins of the Argentine crisis: a suggested interpretation ? In this paper we look for the historical genesis of the Argentine crisis. We argue that the economic liberalization model, implicit of the Convertibility Plan, has its roots in establishment of the agro-exporting economy on which,...

The failure of Collor Plan in stabilizing the Brazilian economy, in March 1990, is a neglected area in Brazilian economics. The liquidity blockade involving the majority of financial assets reduced inflation rates substantially, from 70% per month to 10% per month, but it rose again gradually to...