Development conventions in Lula’s mandates: an essay on political economy. This article analyses the different development proposals put forward during the two Lula Presidential mandates. It is argued that such proposals are structured as “development conventions”, which involve different...

The paper analyses the attempts of the LULA administration to establish a new development convention in Brazil and argues that the limited and uneven growth achieved during this period can be ascribed to the strength of a coalition of interests structured around very high interest rates paid on...