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Brazil's second chance : en route toward the first world / / Lincoln Gordon



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Autore: Gordon Lincoln Visualizza persona
Titolo: Brazil's second chance : en route toward the first world / / Lincoln Gordon Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2001
Edizione: 1. ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (261 p.)
Disciplina: 981.06
Soggetto geografico: Brazil History 1954-1964
Brazil History 1964-1985
Brazil History 1985-
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Brazil's second chance  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8157-9854-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910810207503321
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