Gustavo Henrique de Barroso Franco is a Brazilian economist. Former Governor of the Brazilian Central Bank,is best known for being one of the "fathers" of the Real Plan,the 1994 monetary reform that ended hyperinflation in Brazil. He teaches economics at the Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro since 1986. He is also a businessman,consultant and has served on many boards. He founded Rio Bravo Investimentos where he works as Senior Advisor. He has written several books,academic papers and contributes regularly to newspapers and magazines.
The National Bank for Economic and Social Development is a development bank structured as a federal public company associated with the Ministry of the Economy of Brazil. The stated goal is to provide long-term financing for endeavors that contribute to the country's development. BNDES is one of the largest development banks in the world. Its non-performing loan ratio is also less favorable (2.2%) compared to the CDB's that stands below 1%.
Henrique de Campos Meirelles is a Brazilian manager and former Minister of Finance and an executive of the Brazilian and the international financial sectors and former president of Central Bank of Brazil where he remained in office from 2003 to 2011. He chairs J&F's board of directors,company that owns Banco Original,JBS and Vigor,among others. He is also a member of the board of directors of Azul Brazilian Airlines.
Guido Mantega is an Italian-born Brazilian economist and politician. Mantega served as Minister of Finance from 2006 to 2015 under the presidencies of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff. His tenure as Minister of Finance,which spanned over eight years in office,was the longest in Brazilian history.
Dilma Vana Rousseff is a Brazilian economist and politician who has been the Chair of the New Development Bank since March 2023. Previously,she served as the 36th president of Brazil from 2011 until her impeachment and removal from office on 31 August 2016. She is the first woman to have held the Brazilian presidency. She also previously served as the chief of staff to former and current president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from 2005 to 2010.
Current and historical relations exist between the Commonwealth of Australia and the Federative Republic of Brazil. Both nations are members of the Cairns Group,G20 and the United Nations. Australia and Brazil are the largest countries in the Southern Hemisphere.
General elections were held in Brazil on 5 October 2014 to elect the president,the National Congress,and state governorships. As no candidate in the presidential election received more than 50% of the vote in the first round on 5 October 2014,a second-round runoff was held on 26 October 2014.
Nelson Henrique Barbosa Filho is a Brazilian economist and professor of economics. From 21 December 2015 to 12 May 2016,he was Brazil's Minister of Finance.
Maria da Conceição Tavares was a Portuguese naturalized Brazilian economist. She was a full professor at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) and professor emeritus of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Her students included the former president of Brazil,Dilma Rousseff. Tavares was affiliated with the Workers' Party,and she was a Federal Deputy representing the state of Rio de Janeiro between 1995 and 1999. Left-wing focused,she was the author of several books on Brazil's economic development as well as numerous journal articles.
Events in the year 2016 in Brazil:
The impeachment of Dilma Rousseff,the 36th president of Brazil,began on 2 December 2015 with a petition for her impeachment being accepted by Eduardo Cunha,then president of the Chamber of Deputies,and continued into late 2016. Dilma Rousseff,then more than 12 months into her second four-year term,was charged with criminal administrative misconduct and disregard for the federal budget in violation of article 85,items V and VI,of the Constitution of Brazil and the Fiscal Responsibility Law,Article 36. The petition also accused Rousseff of criminal responsibility for failing to act on the scandal at the Brazilian national petroleum company,Petrobras,on account of allegations uncovered by the Operation Car Wash investigation,and for failing to distance herself from the suspects in that investigation.
From mid-2014 onward,Brazil experienced a severe economic crisis. The country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fell by 3.5% in 2015 and 3.3% in 2016,after which a small economic recovery began. That recovery continued until 2020,when the COVID-19 pandemic began to impact the economy again.
Ilan Goldfajn is a Brazilian economist,former governor of the Central Bank of Brazil and former director of the International Monetary Fund's Western Hemisphere Department. In December 2022,he became president of the Inter-American Development Bank.
The Trófeu Raça Negra is a Brazilian award which is handed out to individuals and groups who have contributed or exhibited advancements for Afro-Brazilians. Organized by the NGO Afrobras,it was first handed out in 2000 on the 500th anniversary of the European arrival in Brazil,and has been held annually since 2004. It is similar to the NAACP Image Award in the United States.
Gilberto Magalhães Occhi is a Brazilian lawyer and politician member of the Progressistas (PP). He was Minister of Cities and of National Integration during the government of president Dilma Rousseff.
Gustavo Henrique Moreira Montezano is a Brazilian economist and businessman who served as the president of the Brazilian Social and Economic Development Bank from 2019 to 2023.
Brazil–Ethiopia relations are the current and historical relations between Brazil and Ethiopia. Both nations are members of the Group of 77,BRICS and the United Nations.
Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr is a Brazilian economist who was an Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from April 2007 to June 2015. He also was one of the founding members of the New Development Bank (NDB) in Shanghai,where he held the vice-presidency between 2015 and 2017. Author of seven books and a vast list of economic papers and publications,Nogueira has been also a frequent contributor to Brazilian magazines as Carta Capital and prominent daily newspapers as O Globo,based in Rio de Janeiro. The relation between nation,nationalism and globalization is one of his favorite subjects.
Eugênio Gudin Filho(AFI:/gudã/) was a Brazilian liberal economist and finance minister from September 1954 to April 1955,during the government of CaféFilho.
Jorge Rodrigo Araújo Messias is a Brazilian attorney,incumbent Attorney General of Brazil nominated by president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. He is a prosecutor of National Finances since 2007 and served as sub-chief for juridical affairs of the Chief of Staff during the presidency of Dilma Rousseff.
