Entendimentos estão sendo mantidos entre o Ghana Institute of Languages (GIL) e a Embaixada do Brasil, com vistas ao restabelecimento do Leitorado de português na Universidade de Ghana. De acordo com minuta de Memorando de Entendimento, o GIL estipulou as condições para a aceitação, pelo período acadêmico de dois anos, do Leitorado, oferecendo ao leitor brasileiro acomodação e subsídio para transporte no valor de GH $ 50,00 (cinquenta ganas cedis mensais) equivalentes a US$ 45,00 (quarenta e cinco dólares).
O leitor deverá possuir qualificação de pos-graduação e ter graduação em língua portuguesa, com o mínimo de três anos de experiência profissional.
“President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva used the latter half of the boom years to build on a trick pioneered by his predecessor, economist Fernando Henrique Cardoso: Rather than viewing the high spending social state and the free-market, free-trade capitalist state as polar opposites and swinging between the two competing models as is on a pendulum, united them into a single force and let them reinforce one another.
Mr. da Silva’s supporters called it “social capitalism”, and it remained unpopular with both socialists and capitalists through much of the boom. Today, in a crisis that has defied the orthodoxies of conservatism, socialism and liberalism alike, nobody’s laughing at Lula.
During the boom, Brazil managed to pay off all its debts to the International Monetary Fund and to operate its finances on a constant-surplus basis, accumulating more than US$200 billion in foreign reserves to get through the bad times.
It pursued an inflation-fighting monetary policy, reformed its government and won an investment-grade bond rating – extraordinary for a country that at the beginning of the boom was deeply impoverished and had just emerged from decades of military dictatorship.
Meanwhile, Brazil also spent heavily on its people, creating the developing world’s first universal social programme – it offers a maximum of US$100 a month to the poorest families, so long as they fulfil conditions such as sending their children to school and having them vaccinated.
It costs only 2.5% of government spending, but its results are striking: Infant mortality was cut almost in half, to fewer than 22 deaths per thousand from 39 a decade ago. Childhood malnutrition fell to 7% from 13%”.
By Doug Saunders
Source: CTCglobemedia
