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Lael Brainard

Capsule Review
Nov/Dec
2009
Brazil as an Economic Superpower? Understanding Brazil's Changing Role in the Global Economy
<p>Richard Feinberg</p>

In this timely volume, Brainard and Martinez-Diaz concede that the Brazilian state's past fostering of national enterprises laid the foundation for the success of the country's global firms today -- in petrochemicals, aerospace, biofuels, and export-oriented agriculture.
Capsule Review
Nov/Dec
2003
The Other War: Global Poverty and the Millennium Challenge Account
Richard N. Cooper
Essay
Jan/Feb
2002
Capitalism Unhinged: The IMF and the Lessons of the Last Financial Crisispremium content icon
Lael Brainard

Paul Blustein offers an inside look at how the International Monetary Fund and world economic authorities navigated the chaos and confusion of the last global financial crisis -- in the hope that we might respond better to the next one.
Capsule Review
Nov/Dec
2001
Stress Testing the System: Simulating the Global Consequences of the Next Financial Crisis
Lael Brainard
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November/December 2009 / 6, 88
Essay
In the Quicksands of Somalia
Bronwyn Bruton

Washington's repeated attempts to bring peace to Somalia with state-building initiatives have failed, even backfired. It should renounce political intervention and encourage local development without trying to improve governance.
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