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Humanitarian Action and Development / Comment

Lula's Brazil and the fight against poverty: results and opportunities

04/07/2006 By Santiago Herrero Villa

Last June 24, Brazil's Partido de los Trabajadores, PT, (Workers Party) made what everyone was taking for granted official. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will run for president again next October 1, on the slogan “Com a força do povo, Lula de novo”.

It is, then, a good moment to quickly take stock of some of the results obtained during his administration in relation to the claimed priority of fighting against poverty. It may also be advisable to analyse the influence of Lula's Brazil in the different fronts this fight has in the world, from trade deregulation (Doha Round) to the development co-operation policies of the main donors and the attainment of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

According to all the polls, Lula would have other four years to "continue with the change process" and strengthen Brazil's role in the international scene of sustainable development.

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Keywords

Aid policy Brazil Democracy Poverty reduction

Bio author: Santiago Herrero Villa

BA in Information Sciences by the University Complutense of Madrid (1976). A journalist and independent communications consultant, Santiago Herrero Villa is Vice President of the association CEFICALE (Centre of Studies, Training and Information on EU-Latin American Co-operation); Member of the EU institutions' Team Europe; and Lecturer of the module "Policies and EU-Latin American Co-operation Programmes" at CEPADE (Polytechnic University of Madrid).