Brazil: growth, adaptive capacity & new green technologies
environmental opportunities and antagonisms for Brazil in the 21st CenturyArchive for Martin Wolf
BBC World Service: ‘The World’s Shifting Balance’
BBC World Service radio programme presented by Martin Wolf (click through for mp3 here). Wolf talks to people including Charles Dumas, Justin Lin and Kenneth Rogoff about whether global economic governance needs to be rethought. E.g.The outdated, empty pronouncements of the G-7 as well as SWFs of large emerging economies propping up developed nations’ banks.
Justin Yifu Lin fears inflation over US slowdown
World Bank Chief Economist talks to Martin Wolf about challenge facing developing economies. China should worry more about the impact of inflation, caused by rise in energy and food prices,than a US slowdown (which will impact on exports). Yesterday the Brazilian government announced an extension of agricultural credit to boost agricultural production as a means to bring down the price of food staples. A recent study revealed food prices up by 15% in Sao Paulo and 50% in Natal.
