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The Brazil Institute Podcast Series aims to highlight the research, commentary and analysis of preeminent scholars, policymakers and business leaders covering the most timely and significant public policy issues in Brazil.
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Knowledge and Innovation for Competitiveness in Brazil
 Innovation climates in developing countries tend to be characterized by poor business and governance conditions, low educational levels, and mediocre infrastructure. Innovation is essential for economic growth, hence improving innovation climates is essential for developing countries. This is the premise of the World Bank's Knowledge for Development project, which provides policy advice to client countries on four Knowledge Economy pillars: economic and institutional regime, education, innovation, and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to help them make the transition to a KE.
In this podcast interview, Alberto Rodriguez , Lead Education Specialist at the World Bank Institute, discusses the book he authored along with Carl Dahlman and Jamil Salmi–Knowledge and Innovation for Competitiveness in Brazil. The authors argue that, in Brazil, the type of innovation that has most potential and is most adequate to its current industrial development is innovation by diffusion-a ‘trickle-down’ type of diffusion, from most innovative to least innovative companies in a same industry.
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Literature in the Amazon
 When one thinks of the Amazon, rarely is art the first thing that comes to mind. But it was the Amazon, and the city of Manaus, specifically, that gave Brazil one of its most famous contemporary poets, Thiago de Mello, and a world renowned orchestra conductor, Claudio Santoro. Manaus is also the birthplace of Milton Hatoum and Márcio Souza, novelists whose creative work have brought renewed attention to Amazonian cultural production.
In this podcast interview, Marcio Souza, author of Galvez -Imperador do Acre and Mad Maria, talks about Amazonian literature and how it has contributed to Brazilian literature.
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Brazil’s Emerging Economic Power
 The relationship between Brazil and the U.S. has rarely been better. In 2007 Luis Inácio “Lula” da Silva was the first Brazilian to visit Camp David, a meeting preceded by President George W. Bush’s trip to Brazil and followed by a visit by Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. Still the Brazil-U.S. relationship has not been as vigorous as the relationship between the U.S. and the other BRICs, despite a growing overlap in national interests between Brazil and the United States: Doha round, alternative energy sources and political instability in the Hemisphere.
In this podcast interview, Pedro da Motta Veiga, director of Centro de Estudos de Integração e Desenvolvimento (CINDES), discusses Brazilian perceptions on the possibility of a Strategic Relationship and the advantages and disadvantages of establishing this relationship for both Brazil and the United States.
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Brazil’s Emerging Economic Power
 On April 30, 2008, Standard & Poor’s became the first ratings agency to raise Brazil’s foreign debt to investment-grade status—Fitch Ratings, the second of the world’s largest three ratings agency, followed suit a few days later. These unprecedented decisions, coupled with the discovery of massive new oil and gas reserves, boost Brazil’s prospects for continued, long-term economic and political stability.
In this podcast interview, Lisa Schineller, director of sovereign ratings at Standard & Poor’s rating agency, discusses the growing stability of and future prospects for Brazil's economy, addressing the impact of the growing middle class, the central bank and recent oil and gas discoveries.
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Innovation in Brazil
 As Brazil seeks to solidify its position as an emerging economic power, policymakers, business leaders and scholars are focusing on how the country can better employ a coherent and robust national innovation strategy to diversify the its economy and achieve higher, sustainable levels of growth. On July 31, 2008, the Brazil Institute held the fourth seminar in an ongoing series dedicated to the issue of innovation. It highlighted new and persistent challenges Brazil faces to harness this tool and create the necessary policies and business climate that will spur innovation.
The podcast interview with Rahim Rezaie, lead author on the recent article “Brazil health biotech—fostering crosstalk between public and private sectors” published in the Nature Biotechnology journal, focuses on the dynamics of the Brazilian health biotech sector, the public policy challenges facing companies in this industry and compares the Brazilian experience with other emerging markets.
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 The podcast interview with Ricardo Sennes, director of the consulting firm Prospectiva International and professor of International Relations at PUC-SP, analyzes public-private partnerships, the challenges of Brazil's national innovation system, and the importance of the private sector in spurring innovation.
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