Place: Sala da Congregação, FEA I, FEA/USP
Date: November 21-22, 2013
Coordination: Carlos R. Azzoni
November 21, Thursday
Opening ceremony
1:45 – 2:00 Reinaldo Guerreiro (Dean, FEAUSP), Joaquim Guilhoto (Chairman, Department of Economics, USP), Carlos Luque (President, Fipe) and Mary-Ann Arends Kuenning (Director, Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies, University of Illinois)
Views from Brazil
2:00 – 2:40 Tiago Vieira, BNDES
Infrastructure and growth in Brazil
2:40 – 3:20 Wagner Colombini, Logit
The Brazilian transportation system’s bottlenecks: physical, environmental, institutional
3:20 – 3:40 Coffee break
3:40 – 4:20 Erik Rego, Production Engineering Department, USP
Brazilian electricity sector: challenges for the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity
4:20 – 5:00 Carlos Bacha, ESALQ USP
Infrastructure and the Brazilian competitiveness in the agribusiness
5:00 – 6:00 Guest speaker: Nelson Siffert, Head of the Infrastructure Department, BNDES – National Development Bank
6:00 – 6:30 FIPE at 40
November 22, Friday
Views from abroad
9:00 – 9:40 Hadi Esfahany, University of Illinois
Infrastructure in Middle Eastern development
9:40 – 10:20 Werner Baer and Rahul Sirohi, University of Illinois
Transportations infrastructure and economic development: a comparative analysis of Brazil and India
10:20 – 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 – 11:30 Matthew S. Winters, University of Illinois
Public service provision under conditions of insufficient citizen demand: insights from the urban sanitation sector in Indonesia
Multiple dimensions of infrastructure
11:30 – 12:00 Jerry Davila and Joe Love, University of Illinois
School construction as education reform in twentieth century Rio de Janeiro
12:00 – 12:30 Ed Amann, University of Manchester, and Werner Baer, University of Illinois
A historical analysis of infrastructure and Brazil’s economic development
12:30 – 2:00
Lunch break
2:00 – 2:40 Mary-Ann Arends Kuenning, University of Illinois
Access to infrastructure by people of different backgrounds
2:40 – 3:30 Eduardo Haddad, FEAUSP, NEREUS
The underground economy: tracking the wider impacts of the São Paulo subway system
3:30 – 4:00 Coffee break
4:00 – 4:40 Luiz Ricardo Cavalcante and Fernanda De Negri, IPEA
Infrastructure for the production of knowledge in Brazil
4:40 – 5:10 Juliana Scriptore, FEAUSP, NEREUS
Social impacts of privatization in sanitation
5:10 – 5:40 Rógeres Barroso, FEAUSP
New approaches to railroad privatization in Brazil
5:40 – 6:30 Guest Speaker: Gesner Oliveira, FGV SP and GO Associados
6:30 – 6:40 Closing ceremony