Brazil as an Economic Superpower?: Understanding Brazil’s Changing Role in the Global Economy

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In Brazil, the confluence of strong global demand for the country’s major products, global successes for its major corporations, and steady results from its economic policies is building confidence and even reviving dreams of grandeza--the greatness that ha...

Lael Brainard is vice president and director of the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution. Among her many books is Global Development 2.0, coedited with Derek Chollet.

Leonardo Martinez-Diaz is a political economy fellow in Global Economy and Development at Brookings and deputy director of the Partnership for the Americas Commission.