Marcos Arruda

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.

Areas of expertise:

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

Media experience:

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

Contact

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

Portuguese; English

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Selected publications

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

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Recent content by Marcos Arruda

Rio+20 - The future we don't want

July 2012
Sustainable development, promised at the Earth summit in 1992, failed because it was equated with economic growth, consumerism and increased corporate power. Without sharing wealth, knowledge and power, humankind will not survive.  

Public Debt, Regional Integration and The South Bank

March 2012
Regional Alternatives in Latin America:
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

January 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?

January 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

October 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.
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Penser et pratiquer le développement autrement

September 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

March 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

March 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

January 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

October 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.