Agriculture and Industry in Brazil
Agriculture and Industry in Brazil

Author: Albert Fishlow

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2020-08-04

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 0231549520

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Agriculture and Industry in Brazil is a study of the economics of Brazilian agriculture and industry, with a special focus on the importance of innovation to productivity growth. Albert Fishlow and José Eustáquio Ribeiro Vieira Filho examine technological change in Brazil, highlighting the role of public policy in building institutions and creating an innovation-oriented environment. Fishlow and Vieira Filho tackle the theme of innovation from various angles. They contrast the relationship between state involvement and the private sector in key parts of the Brazilian economy and compare agricultural expansion with growth in the oil and aviation sectors. Fishlow and Vieira Filho argue that modern agriculture is a knowledge-intensive industry and its success in Brazil stems from public institution building. They demonstrate how research has played a key role in productivity growth, showing how prudent innovation policies can leverage knowledge not only within a particular company but also across whole sectors of the economy. The book discusses whether and how Brazil can serve as a model for other middle-income countries eager to achieve higher growth and a more egalitarian distribution of income. An important contribution to comparative, international, and development economics, Agriculture and Industry in Brazil shows how the public success in agriculture became a prototype for advance elsewhere.

Agriculture and Industry in Brazil
Agriculture and Industry in Brazil

Author: José Eustáquio Ribeiro Vieira Filho

Publisher:

Published: 2020-02-04

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780231191708

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Agriculture and Industry in Brazil is a study of the economics of Brazilian agriculture and industry, with a special focus on the importance of innovation to productivity growth. It examines technological change in Brazil, highlighting the role of public policy in building institutions and creating an innovation-oriented environment.

Development for Sustainable Agriculture
Development for Sustainable Agriculture

Author: Akio Hosono

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-26

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 1137431350

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Since the mid-1970s, the tropical savanna, known as Cerrado, has been transformed into one of the world's largest grain-growing regions. This book explores how and by what Brazil achieved inclusive and sustainable growth in the Cerrado.

Brazil as an Economic Superpower?
Brazil as an Economic Superpower?

Author: Lael Brainard

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2009-09-01

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0815703651

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In Brazil, the confluence of strong global demand for the country's major products, global successes for its major corporations, and steady results from its economic policies is building confidence and even reviving dreams of grandeza—the greatness that has proven elusive in the past. Even as the current economic crisis tempers expectations of the future, the trends identified in this book suggest that Brazil will continue its path toward becoming a leading economic power in the future. Once seen as an economic backwater, Brazil now occupies key niches in energy, agriculture, service industries, and even high technology. Yet Latin America's largest nation still struggles with endemic inequality issues and deep-seated ambivalence toward global economic integration. Scholars and policy practitioners from Brazil, the United States, and Europe recently gathered to investigate the present state and likely future of the Brazilian economy. This important volume is the timely result. In Brazil as an Economic Superpower? international authorities focus on five key topics: agribusiness, energy, trade, social investment, and multinational corporations. Their analyses and expertise provide not only a unique and authoritative picture of the Brazilian economy but also a useful lens through which to view the changing global economy as a whole.

State Capitalism under Neoliberalism
State Capitalism under Neoliberalism

Author: Alessandro Bonanno

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-09-10

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1498589901

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State Capitalism under Neoliberalism analyzes State capitalism in agri-food under neoliberalism and investigates State-sponsored actions designed to counter the negative consequences of the implementation of free-market policies and strategies. In particular, it probes efforts of the Brazilian State to respond to the neoliberalization and corporatization of agriculture and food. Between 2003 and 2016, the left leaning Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores) governed Brazil, which claimed to support landless peasants, family farming, food sovereignty, and State regulation of the unwanted consequences of the evolution of free market capitalism. The contributors analyze these actions of the Brazilian State, stressing its accomplishments and limits, and argue that the emancipatory actions of the Brazilian State engendered a complex and contradictory set of results which show that State capitalism is a problematic solution to the problems generated by the global neoliberal regime.

Modern Brazil
Modern Brazil

Author: Herbert S. Klein

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-03-12

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 1108489028

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The first social history examining all aspects of Brazil's radical transition from a predominantly rural society to an urban one.

Brazil since 1980
Brazil since 1980

Author: Francisco Vidal Luna

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-08-07

Total Pages: 11

ISBN-13: 1139455621

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This is a general survey of Brazilian society, economy, and political system since 1980. It describes the basic changes occurring as Brazil was transformed from a predominantly rural and closed economy under military rule into a modern democratic, industrial and urbanized society, with an extraordinary world class commercial agriculture in the past 60 years. In this period, Brazil passed from a pre-modern high fertility and mortality society to a modern low fertility and mortality one, the economy approached hyper inflation many times, and it abandoned a policy of protected industrialization to an economy opened to world trade. The advances and the failures of these changes are examined for the impact on questions of growth and equality. The book is designed as a basic introduction to contemporary Brazil from a recent historical perspective and is one of the first such comprehensive surveys of recent Brazilian history and development in any language.

OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2021–2030
OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2021–2030

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 2021-07-05

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 9251346089

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The Agricultural Outlook 2021-2030 is a collaborative effort of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. It brings together the commodity, policy and country expertise of both organisations as well as input from collaborating member countries to provide an annual assessment of the prospects for the coming decade of national, regional and global agricultural commodity markets. The publication consists of 11 Chapters; Chapter 1 covers agricultural and food markets; Chapter 2 provides regional outlooks and the remaining chapters are dedicated to individual commodities.

The Food Industry in Brazil
The Food Industry in Brazil

Author: Walter Belik

Publisher: University of London Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13:

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Describes the worldwide food industry's new phase (which developed in the 1980s and is called post-fordist) and its current effects on Brazil. In this phase, new sources of capital arose, new fields of investment appeared and Brazilian companies merged with foreign companies. This paper describes the origins of the food industry in Brazil; discusses the performance of agro-industry, chiefly food production, in the context of Brazilian heavy industrialization in the post-war era; presents the latest movements in the Brazilian food system; stresses the main aspects of the restructuring of the food industry in the developed countries; and assesses conditions in Brazil in relation to the new configuration of the worldwide food industry.

Abolitionism
Abolitionism

Author: Joaquim Nabuco

Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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