Brazil at the Crossroads
Author: Robert M. Levine
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Published: 1973*
Total Pages: 180
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Author: Robert M. Levine
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Published: 1973*
Total Pages: 180
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Walter Fraga
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2016-04-15
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 0822374552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy 1870 the sugar plantations of the Recôncavo region in Bahia, Brazil, held at least seventy thousand slaves, making it one of the largest and most enduring slave societies in the Americas. In this new translation of Crossroads of Freedom—which won the 2011 Clarence H. Haring Prize for the Most Outstanding Book on Latin American History—Walter Fraga charts these slaves' daily lives and recounts their struggle to make a future for themselves following slavery's abolition in 1888. Through painstaking archival research, he illuminates the hopes, difficulties, opportunities, and setbacks of ex-slaves and plantation owners alike as they adjusted to their postabolition environment. Breaking new ground in Brazilian historiography, Fraga does not see an abrupt shift with slavery's abolition; rather, he describes a period of continuous change in which the strategies, customs, and identities that slaves built under slavery allowed them to navigate their newfound freedom. Fraga's analysis of how Recôncavo's residents came to define freedom and slavery more accurately describes this seminal period in Brazilian history, while clarifying how slavery and freedom are understood in the present.
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 13
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carlos Thomaz G. Lopes
Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 396
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study presents a thorough assessment of Brazil's economy and society combining psychological, economic and sociological insights. Starting with a lucid description of Brazil's past and present social reality - including such essential aspects as health, education and cultural identity of the Brazilian population - the author outlines the main dilemmas which Brazil is facing today. He then moves on to the practical agenda with special emphasis on the country's role in the global economy. The author's main objective is to introduce adequate instruments which support Brazil on its quest to greater stability and better education.
Author: Mr.Antonio Spilimbergo
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 2019-03-14
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 1484339746
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrazil is at crossroads, emerging slowly from a historic recession that was preceded by a huge economic boom. Reasons for the historic bust following a boom are manifold. Policy mistakes were an important contributory factor, and included the pursuit of countercyclical policies, introduced to deal with the effects of the global financial crisis, beyond the point where they were helpful. More fundamentally, it reflects longstanding structural weaknesses plaguing the economy, that also help explain Brazil’s uninspiring growth performance over the past four decades.
Author: Luiz Fernando de Paula
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2012-07-26
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1136854908
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the beginning of the 1990s, Brazil has followed a pattern of economic development inspired by Washington Consensus. This framework includes a set of liberalising and market friendly policies such as privatisation, trade liberalization, stimulus to foreign direct investment, tax reform, and social security reforms. This book assesses the determinants and impacts of financial liberalisation in Brazil considering its two dimensions: the opening up of the balance of payments capital account, and the penetration by foreign bank of the domestic banking sector. The author combines theoretical and empirical analyses. Some make use of mathematical models and/or statistical techniques; however, they are only used when they are strictly necessary to the analysis.
Author: Marcos Mendes
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2014-11-19
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0128019654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn terms accessible to non-economists, Marcos José Mendes describes the ways democracy and inequality produce low growth in the short and medium terms. In the longer term, he argues that Brazil has two paths in front of it. One is to create the conditions necessary to boost economic performance and drive the country toward a high level of development. The other is to fail in untying the political knot that blocks growth, leaving it a middle-income country. The source of his contrasting futures for Brazil is inequality, which he demonstrates is a relevant variable in any discussion of economic growth. Inequality illuminates causes of seemingly-unconnected problems. This book, which includes freely-accessible documents and datasets, is the first in-depth analysis of an issue that promises to become increasingly prominent. - Contrasting visions of Brazil's future described in economic terms - Easy-to-understand graphs and tables illustrate analytical arguments - All Excel-based data available on a freely-accessible website
Author: Instituto de Relaciones Europeo-
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 57
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bruno Carvalho
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2017-09-25
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1786948591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA timely and original cultural history of Rio de Janeiro.