Overview

The president of Brazil - Michel Temer - has been trumpeting a false discourse about the Social Welfare deficit. He thus justifies the urgent need for reform, at the risk of jeopardizing future pensions, as well as the country's economic growth. Our objective in this seminar is to show that the Social Welfare System in Brazil is not in deficit, rather an accounting manipulation of the System’s budget in order to justify the reform for the sake of financial purposes.

Bio note

Sérgio Ricardo Ribeiro Lima - Graduated in Economics from the Federal University of Campina Grande, state of Paraíba; Master's degree in Political Economy from the Federal University of Campina Grande, state of Paraíba; PhD in Sociology from the Federal University of Pernambuco, state of Pernambuco; Post-Doctoral researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (CES/UC); Professor of Political Economy at the State University of Santa Cruz (UESC), Ilhéus, State of Bahia.