Celso Furtado

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Celso Furtado
Celso Furtado in 1962
Minister of Planning
In office 28 September 1962 – 31 March 1964
President	João Goulart
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Roberto Campos
Personal details
Born	(1920-07-26)26 July 1920 Pombal, Paraíba, Brazil
Died	20 November 2004(2004-11-20) (aged 84) Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Alma mater	University of Paris
Academic career
Institution	University of Cambridge, CEPAL, Sudene, Cabinet of Brazil, University of Paris
Field	Economics
School or tradition	Structuralist economics
Influences	John Maynard Keynes, Raúl Prebisch

Celso Monteiro Furtado (July 26, 1920 – November 20, 2004) was a Brazilian economist and one of the most distinguished intellectuals of the 20th century.^[1] 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).