Brazil's second chance [[electronic resource] ] : en route toward the first world / / Lincoln Gordon
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| Autore: |
Gordon Lincoln
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| Titolo: |
Brazil's second chance [[electronic resource] ] : en route toward the first world / / Lincoln Gordon
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 0-8157-9854-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910810207503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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