1st New Developmentalism’s Workshop: Theory and Policy for Developing Countries

Hosted by the Centre of New Developmentalism of the São Paulo School of Economics – Getulio Vargas Foundation – Sao Paulo, Brazil
July 25th – July 26th, 2016

AN ANNOUNCEMENT

The Centre of New Developmentalism of FGV/EESP is pleased to invite interested candidates in participating in the 1st New Developmentalism’s Workshop – “Theory and Policies for Developing Countries", which will be held in São Paulo, Brazil, from 25 to 26 of July 2016.

The Workshop will bring together academics and practitioners, PhD students and young researchers in Economics, Political Science, Public Administration as well as contributors from other disciplines who are interested on our following main theme: The New Developmentalism as a theoretical and an applied model for catching up and development.

The content of the first day of the Workshop are lectures on the New Developmentalism Theory. The key economic models and the political economy of New Developmentalism will be discussed. There will be lectures on economic development and structural change, the developmental macroeconomics, exchange rate theory, the tendency to the cyclical and chronic overvaluation of the exchange rate, the determination of the industrial equilibrium and on the political economy of either, the developmental state and the maintenance of high interest rates.

The Finance Minister of Brazil, Dr. Nelson Barbosa, will make the keynote speech relating new developmentalism with the present crisis. Prof. Robert Boyer will be the distinguished foreign guest. He will discuss the relation between the theory of Regulation School and the New Developmentalism (both to be confirmed).

The second day will be reserved for the discussion of academic papers dully submitted to the Workshop; they may be either following the line or critical of the New Developmentalism.

There will also be a discussion between the theorists of new developmentalism and the foreign guest about the ideas and proposes presented during the course.

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