Oral history interview with Celso Furtado, 2000.

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Oral history interview with Celso Furtado, 2000.

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Born 1920 in Pombal, Brazil. Education: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, University of Paris, Cambridge University. Career: Brazilian Expeditionary Force in WWII; UN Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean (CEPAL); Director of Brazilian Development Bank; Brazilian Minister of Planning; planned Superintendency for the Development of the Northeast (Sudene); co-founder of UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD); Brazilian ambassador to the European Economic Community (EEC); Brazilian Minister of Culture. Themes: technology and economic advancement; debate over regional economic integration of Brazil; influence of CEPAL in Brazil; problem of underdevelopment; early intellectual vitality of CEPAL; lack of Latin American government support for CEPAL; determination to study Brazil; plan for and founding of Sudene; exile after 1964 coup d'etat; UN University in Tokyo project; work on UN Development Programme; globalization versus state sovereignty; broad scope of Commission on Culture and Development; perceived lack of new ideas in UN; effect of Cold War on international economic order; condition of women in the modern world; patriotism as an obstacle to global thought.

transcript: 23 p.

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