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Sustainable Development Strategies for the 21st Century

March 20th to March 21th, 2023

 

Organized by the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) in partnership with CEBRI and the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (FIESP), the international seminar brought together industry experts to discuss the coordination between fiscal and monetary policy and how to make them compatible to boost a long-term investment strategy in Brazil, tailored to 21st-century demands.

Schedule:

March 20 (monday)

9h to 9h30 am Opening

  • Geraldo Alckmin, Vice-President of Brazilian Republic and Minister of Development, Industry, Trade and Services
  • Esther Dweck, Minister of Management and Innovation in Public Services
  • Aloizio Mercadante, President at BNDES
  • José Pio Borges, Chairman of the Board of Trustees at CEBRI
  • Josué Gomes da Silva, President at FIESP

Panel 1: The International Experience (9h30 to 11h15 am)

The objective of the first panel is to discuss the need for public policy coordination in view of the new development challenges of the 21st century - in the context of the post-2008 crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic - and the responses being made by central banks and national treasuries internationally.

Opening: André Lara Resende, CEBRI

  • Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University;
  • James Galbraith, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.

11h15 to 11h30 am Coffee Break

Panel 2: The Brazilian Challenges (11h30 am to 13h15 pm)

The objective of the second panel is to discuss an agenda that is guided by the need to provide society with access to public goods and services that are legitimately and democratically guaranteed to citizens and that is, at the same time, compatible with a long-term public investment strategy.

Opening: Élida Graziane, Professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV)

  • Nelson Barbosa, Director of Infrastructure Credit at BNDES
  • Guilherme Mello, Secretary of Economic Policy at the Ministry of Finance of Brazil
  • José Roberto Afonso, Professor at the Brazilian Institute of Education, Development and Research (IDP)

March 21 (tuesday)

Panel 3: The role of the State in Coordinating Long-Term Investment (9h to 11h am)

The objective of the third panel is to discuss the role of the State in the face of the challenges posed in the 21st century, with emphasis on the reduction of inequality and poverty, along with strategies to enable investments in the expansion of productive capacity, in infrastructure, and in the decarbonization of the economy.

Opening Remarks: Leonardo Burlamaqui, Senior Fellow at CEBRI and Professor of the Department of Economic Evolution at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)

  • Mariana Mazzucato, University College London
  • Jeffrey Sachs, Professor at the Columbia University
  • Jayati Ghosh, Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Tereza Campello, Director at BNDES

11h to 11h10 am Coffee Break

11h40 to 12h30 pm Closing

  • Fernando Haddad, Minister of Finance
  • Aloizio Mercadante, President at BNDES
Date:

March 20th to March 21th, 2023

Language:

English

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Organized by the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) in partnership with CEBRI and the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (FIESP), the international seminar brought together industry experts to discuss the coordination between fiscal and monetary policy and how to make them compatible to boost a long-term investment strategy in Brazil, tailored to 21st-century demands.

Schedule:

March 20 (monday)

9h to 9h30 am Opening

  • Geraldo Alckmin, Vice-President of Brazilian Republic and Minister of Development, Industry, Trade and Services
  • Esther Dweck, Minister of Management and Innovation in Public Services
  • Aloizio Mercadante, President at BNDES
  • José Pio Borges, Chairman of the Board of Trustees at CEBRI
  • Josué Gomes da Silva, President at FIESP

Panel 1: The International Experience (9h30 to 11h15 am)

The objective of the first panel is to discuss the need for public policy coordination in view of the new development challenges of the 21st century - in the context of the post-2008 crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic - and the responses being made by central banks and national treasuries internationally.

Opening: André Lara Resende, CEBRI

  • Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University;
  • James Galbraith, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.

11h15 to 11h30 am Coffee Break

Panel 2: The Brazilian Challenges (11h30 am to 13h15 pm)

The objective of the second panel is to discuss an agenda that is guided by the need to provide society with access to public goods and services that are legitimately and democratically guaranteed to citizens and that is, at the same time, compatible with a long-term public investment strategy.

Opening: Élida Graziane, Professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV)

  • Nelson Barbosa, Director of Infrastructure Credit at BNDES
  • Guilherme Mello, Secretary of Economic Policy at the Ministry of Finance of Brazil
  • José Roberto Afonso, Professor at the Brazilian Institute of Education, Development and Research (IDP)

March 21 (tuesday)

Panel 3: The role of the State in Coordinating Long-Term Investment (9h to 11h am)

The objective of the third panel is to discuss the role of the State in the face of the challenges posed in the 21st century, with emphasis on the reduction of inequality and poverty, along with strategies to enable investments in the expansion of productive capacity, in infrastructure, and in the decarbonization of the economy.

Opening Remarks: Leonardo Burlamaqui, Senior Fellow at CEBRI and Professor of the Department of Economic Evolution at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)

  • Mariana Mazzucato, University College London
  • Jeffrey Sachs, Professor at the Columbia University
  • Jayati Ghosh, Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Tereza Campello, Director at BNDES

11h to 11h10 am Coffee Break

11h40 to 12h30 pm Closing

  • Fernando Haddad, Minister of Finance
  • Aloizio Mercadante, President at BNDES

Opening and Moderation

Aloizio Mercadante
Chairman of The Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES)

Esther Dweck
Minister of Management and Innovation in Public Services

Fernando Haddad
Minister of Finance

Geraldo Alckmin
Vice-President of Brazilian Republic and Minister of Development, Industry, Trade and Services

José Pio Borges
Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI)

President of the Brazilian National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) from 1998 to 2000.

Josué Gomes da Silva
President of Fiesp

Participants

André Lara Resende
Trustee

Élida Graziane
Professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV)

Guilherme Mello
Secretary of Economic Policy at the Ministry of Finance of Brazil

James Galbraith
Chair in Government/Business Relations at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs

Jayati Ghosh
Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

Jeffrey Sachs
Director of the Center for Sustainable Development and Professor at Columbia University

José Roberto Afonso
Senior Fellow

Joseph Stiglitz
Professor at Columbia University and Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute

Leonardo Burlamaqui
Senior Fellow

Mariana Mazzucato
Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL)

Nelson Barbosa
Director of Infrastructure Credit at The Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES)

Tereza Campello
Director at The Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES)

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