Brazil in Transition

Brazil in Transition
Author: Lee J. Alston,Marcus André Melo,Bernardo Mueller,Carlos Pereira
Publsiher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2016-05-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780691162911

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Brazil is the world's sixth-largest economy, and for the first three-quarters of the twentieth century was one of the fastest-growing countries in the world. While the country underwent two decades of unrelenting decline from 1975 to 1994, the economy has rebounded dramatically. How did this nation become an emerging power? Brazil in Transition looks at the factors behind why this particular country has successfully progressed up the economic development ladder. The authors examine the roles of beliefs, leadership, and institutions in the elusive, critical transition to sustainable development. Analyzing the last fifty years of Brazil's history, the authors explain how the nation's beliefs, centered on social inclusion yet bound by orthodox economic policies, led to institutions that altered economic, political, and social outcomes. Brazil's growth and inflation became less variable, the rule of law strengthened, politics became more open and competitive, and poverty and inequality declined. While these changes have led to a remarkable economic transformation, there have also been economic distortions and inefficiencies that the authors argue are part of the development process. Brazil in Transition demonstrates how a dynamic nation seized windows of opportunity to become a more equal, prosperous, and rules-based society.

Brazil in Transition

Brazil in Transition
Author: Robert G. Wesson,David V. Fleischer
Publsiher: Greenwood
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1983
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: STANFORD:36105001990923

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Political Economies of Energy Transition

Political Economies of Energy Transition
Author: Kathryn Hochstetler
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2020-11-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781108843843

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Shows that economic concerns about jobs, costs, and consumption, rather than climate change, are likely to drive energy transition in developing countries.

Portugal and Brazil in Transition

Portugal and Brazil in Transition
Author: Raymond S. Sayers
Publsiher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1968-01-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780816658664

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Portugal and Brazil in Transition was first published in 1968. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Through a series of essays on various aspects of Portuguese and Brazilian culture, this book presents an enlightening picture of contemporary civilization in the two countries and a forecast of what the next twenty years or so may bring. The authors discuss subjects in such basic fields as literature, linguistics, history, the social sciences, geography, the fine arts, music, and natural science. Taken as a whole, the contents demonstrate the logic of organizing a volume not around a geographical concept but, rather, around a historical concept, in this case "the world the Portuguese created," as Gilberto Freyre described it. The essays are based on papers that were given at the Sixth International Colloquium of Luso-Brazilian Studies, held in the United States in 1966. In addition to the essays, the book contains the text of comments and discussion about the papers. There are twenty-seven major essays by as many contributors and comments by a number of discussants.

Engendering Democracy in Brazil

Engendering Democracy in Brazil
Author: Sonia E. Alvarez
Publsiher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2021-05-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781400828425

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Brazil has the tragic distinction of having endured the longest military-authoritarian regime in South America. Yet the country is distinctive for another reason: in the 1970s and 1980s it witnessed the emergence and development of perhaps the largest, most diverse, most radical, and most successful women's movement in contemporary Latin America. This book tells the compelling story of the rise of progressive women's movements amidst the climate of political repression and economic crisis enveloping Brazil in the 1970s, and it devotes particular attention to the gender politics of the final stages of regime transition in the 1980s. Situating Brazil in a comparative theoretical framework, the author analyzes the relationship between nonrevolutionary political change and changes in women's consciousness and mobilization. Her engaging analysis of the potentialities for promoting social justice and transforming relations of inequality for women and men in Latin America and elsewhere in the Third World makes this book essential reading for all students and teachers of Latin American politics, comparative social movements and public policy, and women's studies and feminist political theory.

Brazil

Brazil
Author: Alfredo Saad-Filho,Lecio Morais
Publsiher: Pluto Press (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Brazil
ISBN: 0745336752

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A political analysis of the paradox of modern-day Brazil, charting the political transition from military rule to democracy, and to neoliberalism.

Democratizing Brazil

Democratizing Brazil
Author: Alfred C. Stepan
Publsiher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 430
Release: 1989
Genre: Brazil
ISBN: UTEXAS:059172109214890

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Paths of Inequality in Brazil

Paths of Inequality in Brazil
Author: Marta Arretche
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2018-07-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9783319781846

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This book presents multidisciplinary analyses of the historical trajectories of social and economic inequalities in Brazil over the last 50 years. As one of the most unequal countries in the world, Brazil has always been an important case study for scholars interested in inequality research, but in the last few decades has brought a new phenomenon to renew researchers’ interest in the country. While the majority of democracies in the developed world have witnessed an increase in income inequality from the 1970s on, Brazil has followed the opposite path, registering a significant reduction of income inequality over the last 30 years. Bringing together studies carried out by experts from different areas, such as economists, sociologists, demographers and political scientists, this volume presents insights based on rigorous analyses of statistical data in an effort to explain the long term changes in social and economic inequalities in Brazil. The book adopts a multidisciplinary approach, analyzing the relations between income inequality and different dimensions of social life, such as education, health, political participation, public policies, demographics and labor market. All of this makes Paths of Inequality in Brazil – A Half-Century of Change a very valuable resource for social scientists interested in inequality research in general, and especially for sociologists, political scientists and economists interested in the social and economic changes that Brazil went through over the last two decades.