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Social agenda in Lula's foreign policy: the cases of international cooperation provided by MDS and ABC
ISSN: 2178 - 8839Publisher: author   
Social agenda in Lula's foreign policy: the cases of international cooperation provided by MDS and ABC
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Publisher: Conjuntura Austral: Journal Of The Global South Internatio..
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Abstract
This article aims to analyze the international cooperation provided by Brazil through the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC) and the Ministry of Social Development and Fight against Hunger (MDS) during the Lula government (2003-2010). These are complementary case studies that bring a vision of both the wider work of the ABC, the body that centralizes the Brazilian international cooperation, and a specific ministry, MDS, which works in conjunction with ABC in technical cooperation initiatives in the social area. The performance of ABC have played a fundamental role in order to share technical and social technologies developed from the know-how acquired by government agencies operating in Brazil (such as EMBRAPA, SENAI, among others). On the other hand, the MDS technical cooperation has been an extremely important practice. For sharing knowledge directly among that minority which is involved with the decision-making process in their res...