President Fernando Henrique Cardoso on a decade of social and economic change in Brazil
巴西前总统卡多佐回顾其十年执政，讨论通过货币稳定、私有化和减少贸易限制等改革，以及持续关注减少社会不平等。
Executive Overview Executive Overview Fernando Henrique Cardoso has been the president of the Federative Republic of Brazil since January 1. 1995. He was reelected in 1998 in the first elections round, with 53% of the vote. Prior to becoming a public figure, sociologist Fernando Henrique Cardoso had a successful career in academia. He was associate director of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and visiting professor at the College de France and the University of Paris-Nanterre. He also taught at Cambridge, Stanford, and Berkeley. He was chairman of the International Sociology Association (ISA), 1982-1986. He is currently professor emeritus at the São Paulo University. He has published many articles, both in Brazil and abroad, chief among which are “Mudancas socials na America latina” (“Social Changes in Latin America”), “Dependency and Development in Latin America” (with Enzo Faletto), “Politico e Desenvolvimento em Sociedades Dependentes” (“Politics and Development in Dependent Societies”), and “A Construcao da Democracia” (“The Building of Democracy”). Fernando Henrique Cardoso's political career began with his election as senator. A co-founder of Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB, The Party of Brazilian Social-Democracy) in 1988, he led the party's senatorial front until 1992. He was appointed minister of foreign relations and of finance before his election to the presidency. As finance minister, Cardoso was the architect of the so-called “Real Plan,” a recovery strategy to bail out the country's ailing economy. Enormously successful, the plan controlled Brazil's runaway inflation. As president, he promoted numerous reforms, including measures in pursuit of monetary stability, the privatization of state monopolies, and the reduction of trade restrictions. His permanent focus, as the interview below will reveal, has been reducing social inequities in Brazil.