Tài liệu Does Foreign Direct Investment Work For Sustainable Development? A case study of the

Working Group on Development

and Environment in the Americas

Discussion Paper Number 8

Does Foreign Direct Investment Work

For Sustainable Development?

A case study of the Brazilian pulp and

paper industry

Sueila dos Santos Rocha

Luciana Togeiro de Almeida

March 2007

The Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas,

founded in 2004, brings together economic researchers from several countries in

the Americas who have carried out empirical studies of the social and

environmental impacts of economic liberalization. The Working Group’s goal is to

contribute empirical research and policy analysis to the ongoing policy debates on

national economic development strategies and international trade. The Working

Group held its inaugural meeting in Brasilia, March 29-30, 2004. The initial papers

were the basis for “Globalization and the Environment: Lessons from the

Americas,” a policy report published by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in July

2004.

The Policy Report (in Spanish and English), the Discussion Papers (in English),

and a book-length collection of the papers in Spanish can be found on the Web at:

http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/WorkingGroup.htm

Luciana Togeiro de Almeida is a professor in the Department of Economics at Sao Paulo State

University and former President of the Brazilian Society for Ecological Economics. She has

published widely on trade and sustainable development and has served as a consultant and

advisor to the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment.

Sueila dos Santos Rocha holds a Master in Economics from the State University of Sao Paulo

(UNESP). Her research interests are in the field of sustainable development and foreign direct

investment issues. She is currently working as an economist at the Federal University of Espirito

Santo where she is also lecturing Rural Economics at the Center for Agrarian Sciences

© 2007, Luciana Togeiro de Almeida and the Working Group on Development and Environment

in the Americas

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