On 21 March 2025, Rafael Rosa Cedro will defend his PhD thesis on 'Policy Paradigms, Networks, and Practices: Analyzing change in the thinking about economic development in Brazil in the early 21st century (2001-2014) and its influences on policy and strategy making'
- PhD student
- Date
- Friday 21 Mar 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
- Type
- PhD defence
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- Aula B
- Location
- International Institute of Social Studies
His research examines the thinking about economic development that has informed Brazil’s national-level policy and strategy making across time, especially in the period 2001-2014. Such thinking ranged from:
- assertions that early-21st-century Brazil remained essentially tied to the neoliberal frame that had prevailed since the 1990s (Palma, 2012; Vernengo, 2011; Filgueiras and Gonçalves, 2007
- claims that the government, at some point had begun following the prescriptions of a so-called 'new developmentalist' model (Moraes and Saad-Filho, 2012; Bresser-Pereira, 2011d)
- accusations that Dilma rehabilitated the state-activist economic development model of the 1964-1985 military regime
- an increasing incidence of references alluding to late economist Celso Furtado and aspects of the type of economic thinking he had represented before the 1964 military coup
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Doctoral Board
Chair
Doctoral dissertation supervisors
Full Doctoral Committee
- Professor Maria Rita Loureiro, Getulio Vargas Foundation
- Professor Paul Alexander Haslam, University of Ottawa
- Professor Kees Koonings, Utrecht University
- Professor Geske Dijkstra
- Professor Mansoob Murshed, International Institute of Social Studies
- More information
The ceremony will begin promptly at 15:00 hrs in the ISS auditorium (Aula B) of the ISS, Kortenaerkade 12, The Hague. The doors will be closed after the start of the Public Defence, but will be briefly opened after the candidate’s introduction to allow latecomers to enter.
Children under 7 years old are not allowed in the Aula during the first part of the ceremony.
The ceremony will be followed by a reception in the Atrium of the ISS.
Professors are invited to join the academic procession.
- Related links
- ISS PhD programme
