Instituto de Economia da Universidade Estadual de Campinas
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Barão Geraldo
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, Campinas
Campinas
Campinas is a city and municipality located in the coastal interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. is the administrative center of the meso-region of the same name, with 3,783,597 inhabitants as of the 2010 Census, consisting of 49 cities....
, State of São Paulo
São Paulo (state)
São Paulo is a state in Brazil. It is the major industrial and economic powerhouse of the Brazilian economy. Named after Saint Paul, São Paulo has the largest population, industrial complex, and economic production in the country. It is the richest state in Brazil...
, Brazil
Brazil
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.
Originally created as a research institute within the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences (IFCH in Portuguese) of the State University of Campinas, it is today one of the most important public policy think-tanks in economics
Economics
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and related areas in Brazil. It is also a great supplier of policy makers in the country, such as: Celso Furtado
Celso Furtado
Celso Monteiro Furtado was an important Brazilian economist and one of the most distinguished intellectuals of his country during the 20th century. His work focuses on development and underdevelopment and on the persistence of poverty in peripheral countries throughout the world...
, influential economist in the country, Aloízio Mercadante
Aloízio Mercadante
Aloízio Mercadante Oliva is an economist and Brazilian politician. He was one of the founders of the Workers' Party in February, 1980, and served as vice-president of the party from 1991 to 1999.-See also:...
(Senator, SP), Luciano G.Coutinho (recently appointed as chairman of BNDES
BNDES
The Brazilian Development Bank is a federal public company associated with the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade. Its goal is to provide long-term financing for endeavors that contribute to the country's development...
), José Serra
José Serra
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(governor of São Paulo) and many others.
It offers one undergraduate major in Economics (BA Economics), many specialization courses (in Management
Management
Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...
, International Relations
International relations
International relations is the study of relationships between countries, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations , international nongovernmental organizations , non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations...
and Diplomacy
Diplomacy
Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of groups or states...
, Labour Economics
Labour economics
Labor economics seeks to understand the functioning and dynamics of the market for labor. Labor markets function through the interaction of workers and employers...
and Banking), and two Masters programs (Development Economics and Economic Theory) and one Ph.D.
Ph.D.
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program.
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Cidade Universitária Zeferino VazInstituto de Economia
Caixa Postal: 6135 - CEP 13083-970
Campinas - SP - Brasil