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Some financial analysts are betting that Luciano Coutinho, 64, Dilma Rousseff’s economics professor at Campinas University, will become one of her top policy advisers, possibly finance minister, when she takes office in January. Since 2007, Coutinho has headed the Rio-based bank known as BNDES.
Here's a link to a profile of Coutinho and his economic policies.
Apparently, Coutinho belongs to the “developmentalist” school of economics that pushed for high tariffs and state-led investment in the 1970s to boost Brazil’s industrial capacity.
