Celso Furtado date of birth:
July 26, 1920
How old was Celso Furtado when died?
84
Where was Celso Furtado born?
Pombal, Paraiba, Brazil
When did Celso Furtado die?
November 20, 2004
Celso Furtado body shape:
Average
What color is Celso Furtado's hair?
Salt and Pepper
Is Celso Furtado gay or straight?
Straight
What is Celso Furtado's ethnicity?
White
What is Celso Furtado nationality?
Brazilian
What is Celso Furtado's occupation?
Economist
Short Biography
Celso Monteiro Furtado (July 26, 1920 – November 20, 2004) was an important Brazilian economist and one of the most distinguished intellectuals of his country during the 20th century. His work focuses on development and underdevelopment and on the persistence of poverty in peripheral countries throughout the world. He is viewed, along with Raúl Prebisch, as one of the main formulators of economic structuralism, an economics school that is largely identified with CEPAL, which achieved prominence in Latin America and other developing regions during the 1960s and 1970s and sought to stimulate economic development through governmental intervention, largely inspired on the views of John Maynard Keynes. As a politician, Furtado was appointed Minister of Planning (Goulart government) and Minister of Culture (Sarney government).