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Marcos Arruda

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 and co-operative movements for many years.

Arruda has served as an advisor to local governments and the Workers' Party (PT) in his region, and is an animator for the virtual Workshop on a Socio-Economy of Solidarity from the Alliance for a United and Responsible World.

He is also active in the Brazilian Network for the Integration of the Peoples working on issues related to NAFTA, Mercosur, Free Trade Area of the Americas and the World Trade Organisation. He is involved with the Brazilian network on Multilateral Financial Institutions and is a co-ordinator of the Brazilian Jubilee 2000 Campaign.

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

Recent content by Marcos Arruda

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 (24 Mar 2009)

The economy centred on profit and the individual accumulation of material wealth by the cruellest competition and egocentric corporatism has had catastrophic effects and must give way to an economy centred on the social individual, on the human person.

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.

Brasil: clima, dívida social e dívida ecológica (29 Aug 2007)
Brasil livre de transgênicos: (18 Aug 2007)
L'aube d'un nouveau Vénézuela (2 Aug 2007)
Aurora de uma Venezuela inovadora (1 Aug 2007)
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