First elected in 2002 and reelected by a landslide in 2006, Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva is renowned for expanding Brazil’s antihunger and antipoverty programs. Lula has been no less determined to enhance Brazil’s role as an international leader by pushing for the more prominent role of developing...

Brazilian president Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silvais a much more apposite choice for 2007's "person of the year."

Brazilian president Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silvais a much more apposite choice for 2007's "person of the year."

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For years, it was a well-known joke that Brazil is the country of the future and always will be. Indeed, the notion that Brazil would have higher economic growth and lower unemployment rates than the United States would have been unthinkable...

Fiscal policy has generated little political capital for President Bush--precisely because he has been so willing to run high deficits.

On January 1, 2003, Luis Inacio "Lula" da Silva of Brazil's Workers Party assumed the presidency. Contrary to widespread expectations, President Lula has not gone down the populist path as financial experts had feared before his election. Instead, he has embarked on economic policies supported by the IMF and...

Lula should be encouraged to deepen pension and tax reforms, and to revitalise Brazil's moribund privatisation programme to attract foreign direct investment.