Reforming Brazil

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

Av Mauricio A. Font, Anthony Peter Spanakos, Cristina Bordin

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This groundbreaking work is the first volume in English to examine Brazil's historic policy reforms of the 1990s and the political, economic, and social results. For years the large and ineffective government of Brazil could neither improve the country's greatly uneven distribution of wealth nor maintain inflation at reasonable levels. In the 1990s, long overdue changes bettered the government's fiscal performance, tamed inflation, and addressed chronic social ills stemming from the imbalance of wealth. But many problems, and many questions, remain. Why is Brazil still so poor, and why is inequality so intransigent? Were some of the reforms counterproductive, or could they have been implemented in a more effective way? Collecting essays by top Brazilianist scholars from various disciplines and intellectual traditions, Reforming Brazil provides new insights for international policy makers, economists, and scholars of Brazil.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2004-06-15
Mått166 x 227 x 22 mm
Vikt422 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieBildner Western Hemisphere Studies
Antal sidor280
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780739105870

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Part 1 IntroductionPart 2 Dawn of a New EraChapter 3 The Reform AgendaPart 4 ReformsChapter 5 Monetary and Fiscal ReformsChapter 6 Privatization: Reform Through NegotiationChapter 7 Social Policy ReformChapter 8 Agrarian ReformChapter 9 Political Reform: The 'Missing Link'Part 10 Institutions, Actors, and Regional ContextChapter 11 Competitive Federalism and Distributive ConflictChapter 12 Industrialists and LiberalizationChapter 13 Entrepreneurs: The PNBEChapter 14 Working-Class ContentionChapter 15 Brazil and Hemispheric Integration

Brazil was widely transformed by an entire decade of economic reforms. . . . Here, Font and Spanakos, with a brilliant group of experts, show that this reform agenda must be vigorously pursued by President Lula, to complete and improve the liberalization era initiated by President Cardoso (1995-2002). Now is the dawn of a new era of social change, and this is the book to get acquainted with the actors and processes already on the move in Brazil.