Brazil's second chance [[electronic resource] ] : en route toward the first world / / Lincoln Gordon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910810207503321
• Autore: Gordon Lincoln
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2001
• ISBN: 0-8157-9854-7
• Edizione: [1. ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (261 p.)
• Disciplina: 981.06
• Soggetti: Brazil History 1954-1964; Brazil History 1964-1985; Brazil History 1985-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "A Century Foundation book."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Foreword -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- The Goal: Genuine First World Status -- The First Chance: What Went Wrong? -- Structural Change under the Military Republic -- The Incomplete Transformation: Economic Structures -- The Social Dimension -- The Political Structure -- From Debt and Drift to Real-and Stability? -- Brazil and the World -- The Prospects -- Index -- Back Cover.
• Sommario/riassunto: Brazil is currently in a critical phase of a decades-long transformation from a patrimonial society--based on the cultivation and export of sugar and coffee--to a modernized industrial and service economy with effective democratic governance. It is the world's fifth largest nation-state in area and population, and ranks eighth in total economic output. Since World War II, Brazil has been a leader in international trade governance and negotiation, playing an important part in development of the GATT and the WTO. Currently, the country is a major factor in negotiations toward a hemispherewide Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). However, Brazil's political record in the past half century has been erratic and it has struggled with high inflation and balance-of-payment deficits. In this major new work, a former American ambassador to Brazil examines the social, political, and economic history of the country since the 1930s and discusses whether Brazil is now ready to assume a place as an important participant ; among First World nations.