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Economic or health crisis?

The difficult situation of Brazil

Article by Rubens Sawaya, Professor at PUC-SP
Rubens Sawaya has a
degree in Economic Sciences,
Master’s in Economics and PhD
in Political Science from the
Pontifical Catholic University
of São Paulo (PUC - SP).
Currently, he is Professor at
the Department of Economics
at PUC and Coordinator of
the graduate program in
Political Economy at the same
institution, and is Director of
the International Initiative for
Promoting Political Economy
(IIPE).
Professor writes the
following article for PERSONAL COLLECTION
AgriBrasilis where he portrays
the macroeconomic scenario in
which Brazil, and the world,
Paulista Avenue, in São Paulo City, in the
are facing the Coronavirus
second week of lockdown
epidemic (COVID-19), and
what can be expected in the 于圣保罗保利斯塔大街，封城第二周
near future.
debt to save the speculative Thus, in the last 10 years, they
The solution to the 2008 markets in Europe and the demanded in the world the end
global crisis, a crisis that was USA. Contradictorily, after of the welfare State, “reforms”
born in speculative markets, the process, the recovered with cuts in health, education,
involved a large monetary financial markets started to labor and social security
issue and a sharp rise in public accuse the State of “spender”. rights. Thereby if, on the
经济危机或健康危机？巴西的困境

文章由圣保罗天主教大学Rubens Sawaya教授所著

Rubens Sawaya拥有 疫情（COVID-19）下巴西 福利国家的存在，并进行改
圣保罗天主教大学（PUC- 乃至世界所要面临的宏观经 革以削减卫生、教育、劳动
SP）的经济学学位，经济学 济情景，及在不久的将来可 和社会保障权利。因此，一
硕士学位及政治科学博士学 能会发生的情况。 方面，如果国家提供的流动
位。目前，他是圣保罗天主 2008年全球危机（一场 性在不影响实体经济或通胀
教大学（PUC）经济系教授 源于投机市场的危机）的解 的情况下结束了投机泡沫的
和政治经济学研究生课程的 决办法涉及了大量的货币问 再次扩大，另一方面，国家
协调员，并且是促进政治经 题和急剧上升的公债，以此 被迫削弱了其所采取的反周
济学的国际倡议（IIPE）主 来拯救欧洲和美国的投机市 期财政政策和削减社会政策
任。 场。但矛盾的是，采取相关 资源的能力，这削弱了卫生
Rubens Sawaya教授为 措施后，复苏的投机市场却 系统和致使工作的不稳定。
AgriBrasilis撰写了以下文 指责国家的“挥霍”。所以在 由此，完美的风暴场景应运
章，其中描绘了在冠状病毒 过去10年里，他们要求终结 而生。