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Inequality, Democracy, and Growth in Brazil
A Country at the Crossroads of Economic Development
1st Edition - November 19, 2014
Author: Marcos Mendes
Language: English
Paperback ISBN:9780128019511
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eBook ISBN:9780128019658
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In 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 ar…Read more
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In 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
Upper-division undergraduates and graduate students working in economics and finance as well as professionals studying Latin America and developing countries in general.
Foreword
Disclaimers
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Dedication
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 1: Low Economic Growth and its Proximate Causes
Abstract
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Sources of economic growth
1.3 The Brazilian economy during the military government (1964-1984) and the transition to democracy
1.4 Low growth
1.5 Proximate causes for low growth in 10 stylized facts
1.6 The story behind low growth
Annex 1
Chapter 2: Inequality
Abstract
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The composition of inequality
2.3 The fall of inequality since the mid-1990s
2.4 Will inequality continue to fall?
2.5 Are social policies effective in reducing inequality?
2.6 Did inequality only begin to fall more intensely as of 2001?
2.7 Social stratification after two decades of poverty and inequality reduction
2.8 Conclusions
Chapter 3: Redistribution to the Rich
Abstract
3.1 Introduction
3.2 What does economic theory have to say?
3.3 Inequality, extractive institutions, and rent seeking in Brazil
3.4 Evidence of redistribution to the rich in Brazil
Chapter 4: Redistribution to the Poor
Abstract
4.1 Introduction
4.2 What does economic theory have to say?
4.3 The fiscal impact of income transfer to the poor
4.4 Expansion of public education for the poor and its Fiscal impact
4.5 Expansion of public health to the poor and its fiscal impact
4.6 Conclusions
Chapter 5: The Middle Class Joins the Game
Abstract
5.1 Introduction
5.2 What does economic theory have to say?
5.3 Rent seeking in legal disputes
5.4 The elderly as a politically preferred public
5.5 Public education that does not serve the poor
5.6 The political power of civil servants
5.7 Labor unions and resistance to labor legislation reform
5.8 Income-tax exemptions
5.9 18 Great farm debt renegotiations in 19 years
5.10 The widespread distributive conflict
5.11 Conclusions
Chapter 6: Redistribution and Long-Term Growth
Abstract
6.1 Introduction
6.2 What does economic theory have to say?
6.3 Which path will brazil take?
6.4 Conclusions
Glossary
Index
No. of pages: 280
Language: English
Edition: 1
Published: November 19, 2014
Imprint: Academic Press
Paperback ISBN: 9780128019511
eBook ISBN: 9780128019658
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Marcos Mendes
Marcos José Mendes is a member of a Brazilian think tank Fernand Braudel Institute of World Economics. He earned a Ph.D. from Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil) and is a Legislative Advisor in economics for the Brazilian Federal Senate. He started the research for this book in 2012-13 during an eight month visiting
fellowship at the Department of Economics at the London School of Economics.
Affiliations and expertise
Senado Federal - Consultor Legislativo, Brasilia, Brazil
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