by Isabela Messias, MIA candidate 2017 at SIPA Brazil has been going through a lot lately: an impeachment process, a corruption scandal and an economic crisis that has plunged Brazilian GDP by 3.8 percent in 2015. Worldwide, a number of newspapers and TV channels have been discussing the crisis and its negative consequences for the… Read More Saving the Lost Generation
by Álvaro Rossi, BA Candidate in Economic and Political Science, Columbia University. The year of 2016 has been a challenging one for political economists. From the unexpected results of the Brexit and Peace referendums in Great Britain and Colombia respectively, to the unprecedented election of real estate mogul Donald Trump as President of the United… Read More Facultative Voting and the Erosion of the Median Voter Theorem
By Marina Lafer, MPA Candidate at SIPA, Columbia University In 2004, belonging to a social and economic environment in which people were constantly raising doubts over the efficacy of Lula’s policies as Brazil’s President, I remember myself having a bad – unsupported – impression over Bolsa Familia, a program that aims to provide small cash… Read More Brazilians Have A Civic Role In Keeping the “Bolsa Familia” Program
by Isabela Messias, Co Editor and Writer at Brazil Talk It is 9:30am, and the “Institution-Building, Governance and Compliance in Brazil”[1]conference organized and co-hosted by Columbia University just finished setting things up to receive Sergio Moro, the federal judge who is heading the Car Wash operation, also known as Lava Jato — the largest corruption… Read More ‘In Moro we trust’ or ‘Coup promoter’: The danger of football politics
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