Amorim se reune com chanceler da Argentina 30/06/2010 Da Agencia Brasil Brasilia - O ministro das Relacoes Exteriores, Celso Amorim, recebe hoje (30), as 18h, no Itamaraty, o ministro das Relacoes Exteriores, Comercio Internacional e Culto da Argentina, Hector Timerman. E a primeira visita oficial do ministro argentino, que assumiu as funcoes em 22 de junho. Na pauta do encontro, os principais pontos da agenda bilateral, como o andamento de projetos estrategicos no ambito do Mecanismo de Integracao e Cooperacao Brasil-Argentina (Micba), a evolucao do comercio bilateral e da integracao das duas economias. Os chanceleres vao discutir ainda a realizacao da proxima Cupula do Mercosul, o desenvolvimento da Uniao de Nacoes Sul-Americanas (Unasul) e as possibilidades de cooperacao para a reconstrucao do Haiti.Edicao: Graca Adjuto >>>>Disponivel em http://www.itamaraty.gov.br/sala-de-imprensa/selecao-diaria-de-noticias/midias-nacionais/brasil/agencia-brasil/2010/06/30/amorim-se-reune-com-chanceler-da-argentina ..:: Juan Robles ::.. O SEU NAVEGADOR PODE TE PROTEGER DE FRAUDES NA WEB. VEJA DICAS DE INTERNET EXPLORER 8 Even with the taming of inflation since 1994 and clearly more responsible macroeconomic policy since 1999as well as a recent prolonged period of high prices of its main commoditiesproductivity and economic growth have remained depressed, with Brazil frequently below the Latin American average. Even with very positive expectations of 7 percent GDP growth for this year, there are still concerns about its sustainability. This puzzling inconsistency between Brazil's potential and actual performance has prompted several analysts in the vast economic literature on the impediments to growth in Brazil to attempt to explain the main constraints that are holding the country back, leading to the common jest that "Brazil is the country of the future, and always will be."Although these studies start out with more or less the same puzzle, the final answer as to what is the key binding constraint for economic growth in Brazil is not always the same, as could be expected. Even though each author stresses a different constraint as the most important, the stories are not radically different; a common set of policy areas emerges from the literature as the problematic issues that would have to be addressed for the country's growth potential to be realized. What does not emerge from this literature, however, is an analysis of the political economy determinants of the policy choices that have led to these constraints and impeded the reforms that would tackle or ameliorate them. If a given policy is found to be particularly constraining and yet the opportunity to improve growth and social welfare by changing the policy is systematically forgone, we need to discern which aspects of the country's political institutions drive that outcome. For example, rather than simply recognizing that poor infrastructure is an important constraint to economic growth and productivity, the analysis should focus on why the political choices arose and persist that led to this state of affairs and even now impede the obvious solution of investing more in infrastructure. The puzzling choice of the systematic lack of investment in infrastructure, for example, becomes clear once one understands that Brazilian presidents, although constitutionally and politically very strong, are constrained in their efforts to achieve fiscal discipline by a