In 2016 academia, and IRIBA, lost a great mind. Werner Baer contributed significantly to the IRIBA project, and was the catalyst for the special edition of The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance that was ultimately published in his memory. Below is IRIBA co-lead Ed Amann’

By Armando Barrientos and Edmund Amann. Originally published in Policy In Focus, a publication of the UNDP’s International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth. As the world begins to wake up to the dire social and economic consequences of rising inequality, we must recognise that it is

The highly regarded Brazilian business newspaper Valor Economico recently published an article focussed on the findings of our working paper ‘Taxation, Redistribution and the Social Contract in Brazil‘. Here’s a pdf of the article in Portuguese. An English translatio

Summaries of all IRIBA research is now available in French. Don’t forget that you can also access all the briefings in Portuguese.

We have just published summaries of all the IRIBA research briefings, translated into Portuguese. View them via our Portuguese overview page. Photo credit: Adrien Sifre (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

At the end of last year, IRIBA author José Roberto Afonso hosted a seminar looking at the institutional basis for Brazil’s macroeconomic stability. José summarises the discussions for us here (English translation below). O workshop Instituições para Estabilidade Macroeconômica n

Economic stability has been central to Brazil’s development progress over the last 20 years. Without it, successive governments could not have invested in the innovative social policies that have transformed the country. On December 19, we’ll be looking at this in much mor

Last month, IRIBA research director Armando Barrientos presented our main findings on the Brazilian development model at the LSE. Alongside him was the Brazilian Minister for Social Development, Tereza Campello. Favelas@LSE, who organised the event have put videos of all the presentat

Last week, we teamed up with Johns Hopkins SAIS to debate the Brazilian development model and its potential implications for African countries. Watch the event:

Mariana Mota Prado, author of the IRIBA research on the Brazilian approach to anti-corruption wrote the following comment on the Brazilian elections for the University of Toronto law blog. It’s re-posted here with permission. Last month, Brazil decided to re-elect its President,