Oxford Handbook of the Brazilian Economy

Herausgeber: Amann, Edmund; Baer, Werner; Azzoni, Carlos

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Oxford Handbook of the Brazilian Economy provides a global audience of scholars, graduate students and practitioners a comprehensive guide to Brazil's economy.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Handbooks
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 832
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 256mm x 179mm x 50mm
• Gewicht: 1538g
• ISBN-13: 9780190499983
• ISBN-10: 0190499982
• Artikelnr.: 50990596

Autorenporträt

Edmund Amann is Professor of Brazilian Studies at Leiden University. Previous to this he was Reader in Development Economics at the University of Manchester and Research Fellow at the University of Oxford Centre for Brazilian Studies. Carlos Azzoni is Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Economics and Administration at the University of São Paulo. His research focuses on questions of regional development and inter-regional disparities. Werner Baer was Lemann Professor of Economics at the University of Ilinois, Urban-Champaign. Prior to this he held a Chair at Vanderbilt University. Professor Baer's work focused on processes of economic development, industrialization and poverty alleviation.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1. Introduction
* Edmund Amann and Carlos Azzoni
* PART I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
* 2. The Colonial Economy
* Flavio Versiani
* 3. The 19th and Early 20th Centuries
* André Villela
* 4. Brazilian Structuralism
* Joseph Love
* 5. Brazil's Import-Substitution Industrialization
* Werner Baer
* 6. Experiences of Inflation and Stabilization, 1960-1990
* Fernando Holanda
* 7. Leviathan Captured: Neoliberalism as Problem and Solution in
Brazil
* Philippe Faucher
* 8. Growth Volatility and Economic Growth in Brazil
* Jorge Arbache and Sarquis J.B. Sarquis
* PART II: MACRO POLICY AND INSTITUTIONS
* 9. The Brazilian Development Bank
* Ricardo Cavalcante
* 10. The Evolution of Brazil's Banking System
* Gustavo Cortes and Renato Marcondes
* 11. Brazil's Policy-Making Institutions, Quasi Stagnation and the
Interest-Exchange Rate Trap
* Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira
* PART III: THE PRODUCTIVE SECTORS
* 12. Evolution and Sectoral Competiveness of the Brazilian
Manufacturing Industry
* Paulo César Morceiro
* 13. The Agricultural Sector
* Carlos Bacha
* 14. Traditional Agriculture and Land Distribution in Brazil
* Charles Mueller
* 15. Brazil's Agricultural Modernization and EMBRAPA
* Geraldo Martha and Eliseu Alves
* 16. Manufacturing, Services and the Productivity Gap
* Jorge Arbache
* 17. Energy in Brazil: Past and Future
* José Goldemberg
* 18. Infrastructure
* Edmund Amann, Werner Baer, Juan Villa, and Thomas Trebat
* 19. Trade Policies, from the 1930s to the present
* Simão Silber
* PART IV: BRAZIL'S REGIONS
* 20. Regional Disparities
* Carlos Azzoni and Eduardo Haddad
* 21. Brazil's Northeast
* Alexandre Rands
* PART V: SOCIO-ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS
* 22. Changes in Income distribution in Brazil
* Rodolfo Hoffmann
* 23. The Development of Brazilian Education: a Tale of Lost
Opportunities?
* Claudio de Moura Castro
* 24. Antipoverty Transfers and Poverty Reduction
* Armando Barrientos
* 25. South-South Cooperation for Social Development: Brazil and Africa
Examined
* Anthony Hall
* 26. Labour Market Development in Brazil: Formalization at Last?
* Celia Lessa Kerstenetsky and Danielle Carusi Machado
* 27. Environmental Issues
* Ariaster B. Chimeli
* 28. The Economics of Health in Brazil
* Antonio Campino, Maria Dolores Montoya Diaz, and Flavia Mori Sarti
* PART VI: BRAZIL AND THE WORLD ECONOMY
* 29. Brazil, the BRICs and the changing landscape of global economic
governance
* Peri Silva
* 30. Brazilian Trade and International Economic Prospects in an
Anti-Globalization Era
* Donald Coes
* 31. The Evolution of Foreign Direct Investment in Brazil
* Breno Augusto da Silva e Silva
* 32. Multinational Corporations from Brazil
* Edmund Amann
* PART VII: THE CHANGING ROLE OF THE STATE
* 33. The Rise and Fall of State Enterprises
* Armando Castelar Pinheiro
* 34. Antitrust and Competition Policy in Brazil
* Eduardo Pontual Ribeiro, Camila Pires-Alves, and Luis Carlos D. Prado
* 35. Corruption Scandals, the Evolution of Anti-Corruption
Institutions, and their Impact on Brazil's Economy
* Mariana Prado and Lindsey Carson