Brazil is currently immersed in the project of building a new common market, known as MERCOSUR, with its neighbors Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. It has largely been assumed that this project will produce economic growth and therefore be beneficial for the environment. However, this assumption...

For the contemporary reader, especially a young Brazilian academic, it may not be clear that the debate on free trade has assumed different nuances since 1990. If at that time the issue was strictly related with a neoliberal agenda and, therefore, focused solely on market efficiency while being...

During the 1990s, Latin American countries changed their trade and development policies, although to varying degrees, from the “import substitution industrialization” policies of the 1960s and 1970s to more “export-oriented,” trade-liberalizing alternatives. These transformations...