Hydroelectric power plants and wind-powered electrical generators, sewage treatment plants, and hospitals: Major infrastructure projects cost a lot of money. For many companies in Brazil it’s difficult to put in place the necessary financing to realize such projects. How would the financial market need to be structured to facilitate financing?

This is the issue that Adriano de Marchi Fernandes is exploring. Supported by a German Chancellor Fellowship awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, this young economist is spending a research year at Freie Universität’s Institute for Latin American Studies. [...]

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