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Email: marcosarruda[at]pacs.org.br
Phone: + 55 (21) 2210-2124

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Marcos Arruda

Director of Políticas Alternativas Para o Cone Sul (PACS)

Arruda is an economist and veteran popular educator, who has worked closely with Brazilian labour, co-operatives and solidarity economy movements for many years. Arruda has served as an advisor to local governments and as visiting professor in universities in Brazil and abroad. He is a facilitator for the Gaia Education Program and is active in the Ecovillage and the Transition Towns movements. He is also active in the Jubilee South Network, working on issues related to the debt crisis and alternatives, economy and ecology, public budget management and socio-economic development planning.

External Debt & Financial Crisis; Socio-Economy of Solidarity; International Financial Institutions, Sustainable Development; Participatory Democracy

Portuguese; English

Marcos Arruda is frequently interviewed by the Brazilian media and regularly publishes in ALAI, América Latina en Movimiento

Selected publications: 
Penser et pratiquer le développement autrement
Profiting without producing: the financial crisis as an opportunity to create a world solidarity economy

Recent content by Marcos Arruda

Public Debt, Regional Integration and The South Bank (23 Mar 2012)

The EU debt crisis foretells a more serious global debt crisis, caused by unlimited growth and the ongoing financial casino. Latin America's emerging financial and regional architecture offers hope for a new type of integration based on solidarity. 

President Dilma: Let Brazil set an example for a new ecological economy (25 Jan 2011)

President Dilma Roussef has the mandate and responsibility to forge a new development path: one based on participatory planning, a social market and environmental sustainability.

What can we expect to see in 2011? (13 Jan 2011)

Changing global power balances, continuing crises, Iran, Afghanistan. Four TNI fellows share their predictions for 2011.

When world recession knocks at the door it's time to change (13 Oct 2010)

Since economic growth dependent on fossil fuels cannot persist, we must challenge the financial market ideology which continues to take precedence over human well being and the evironment.

Penser et pratiquer le développement autrement (1 Sep 2009)

Ce texte propose une réflexion sur les alternatives à l’expansion mondiale du mode de développement occidental telles que les propose le mouvement altermondialiste depuis une dizaine d’années.

Profiting without producing: the financial crisis as an opportunity to create a world solidarity economy (24 Mar 2009)

Increasingly centered on and subordinated to the financial sector, the global economy, based on the myth of "infinite" growth and resource exploitation, has come up against serious limits. New forms of development which put people at the center, rather than profit, urgently need addressing.

Underneath a veneer of "prosperity" the majority of the world's population lives in conditions of permanent insecurity or crisis. This paper focuses on the key manifestations of the global financial crisis, briefly examines its immediate causes as well as its deeper systemic factors, then advances a key proposal: things can be done differently if we choose to see the crisis as an opportunity for profound socio-economic, political and cultural change, and decide to act accordingly.

Going deeper into a new financial architecture (9 Mar 2009)

We need more than tinkering with banking systems. We need a radical solution to global financial mayhem.

New international financial institutions for a new global financial architecture (29 Jan 2009)

An international financial architecture will be new if it is aimed at strengthening their members’ capacity to plan and manage sustainably their own endogenous, democratic and sustainable socioeconomic and human development.

Endogenous development and a South American financial architecture (6 Oct 2008)
Taking into account the current financial earthquake that is shaking the US financial system, Marcos Arruda summarizes some of the main arguments related to the creation of a new financial architecture for South America.
Beyond Bretton Woods (8 Jul 2008)

A series of provocative essays by leading researchers and activists on three crucial questions: what kind of development should new global economic institutions promote, what are the viable alternatives to the World Bank and IMF and what other global economic institutions are needed to promote a more just trading order with greater social and ecological responsibility.

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