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The Brazilian Economy: Growth and Development
Werner Baer
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2001.
- Edition
- 5th ed
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 027596678X (alk. paper), 0275966798 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Contents
- Part I Historical Perspective 1
- Physical and Demographic Setting 5
- Natural Resources 6
- Population 7
- 2. Historical Perspective 11
- Colonial Economy 11
- Early Socioeconomic Organization 11
- Sugar Cycle 12
- Gold Cycle and the Rise of Mercantilist Control 14
- Colony's Last Years 16
- Century after Independence 16
- Coffee Cycle 17
- Other Exports 18
- Public Policies in the Nineteenth Century 19
- 3. Early Industrial Growth 25
- Pre-World War I Period 25
- World War I 31
- 1920s 32
- Great Depression 35
- Industrial Growth during the Depression 36
- World War II 38
- Evaluation of Brazil's Early Industrial Growth 38
- Early Attempts at Planning in Brazil 41
- 4. Post-World War II Industrialization Drive: 1946-61 47
- Brazil's Foreign Trade and Its Role in the Economy 47
- World Market for Brazil's Traditional Exports in the 1950s 49
- Immediate Postwar Years 51
- Exchange Controls: 1946-53 53
- Multiple Exchange Rate System: 1953-57 54
- Changes in Exchange Controls: 1957-61 56
- Exchange Reform: 1961-63 58
- Law of Similars 58
- Special Plans and Programs 59
- Special Incentive Programs 62
- Effects of Industrialization Policies 63
- Imbalances and Bottlenecks 66
- 5. Stagnation and Boom: Brazil in the 1960s and 1970s 71
- Two Views of the Stagnation of the 1960s 72
- Economic Policies Since 1964 73
- Achievements of the Post-1964 Governments 75
- Government Sector 77
- Issues Surrounding the Post-1964 Growth Experience 78
- Departure from Post-1964 Orthodoxy 83
- 6. From Adjustment to External Shocks to the Debt Crisis: 1973-85 87
- First Oil Shock: Impact and Reaction 87
- Political Changes 88
- Geisel Policies 88
- Growing International Indebtedness 90
- Toward the Debt Crisis 93
- Economic Performance in 1980 98
- Adjustment through Recession 99
- Macro Impact of the Adjustment Period 103
- 7. Resurgence of Inflation in Brazil: 1974-86 117
- Nature of Brazil's Inflation: Two Visions 118
- General Background to Brazil's Inflation 122
- Inflationary Impact of External Shocks 123
- Propagating Mechanism of Inflation 124
- Monetary Aspects of the Inflationary Process 130
- Brazil's Authoritarian Budgetary Process 135
- Indexation 136
- Controlling Inflation through Index Tampering 138
- Price Controls 138
- 8. Decline and Fall of Brazil's Cruzado 145
- Events Leading to the Cruzado Plan 148
- Cruzado Plan 148
- Emerging Difficulties and Contradictions 150
- Breakdown of the Cruzado Plan 165
- External Debt 167
- Evaluation 168
- 9. Brazil's Drifting Economy: Stagnation and Inflation during 1987-93 173
- General Setting 173
- Sarney after the Cruzado Collapse 175
- Fiscal Impact of the 1988 Constitution 178
- Collor Period--Collor I 178
- Collor Period--Collor II 182
- Itamar Franco Period: An Interregnum 187
- A Statistical Review of the Years 1987-93 188
- Brazil's Stagflation, 1987-93: An Interpretation 192
- 10. Illusion of Stability: The Brazilian Economy Under Cardoso 199
- Plano Real 199
- Initial Impact of the Real 201
- Exchange Rate Becomes the Key Policy Instrument 204
- Unresolved Fiscal Dilemma 205
- Capital Flows 212
- Performance of the Real Economy 212
- Banking Crisis 214
- Crisis 1998-99 215
- Part II Contemporary Issues 221
- 11. External Sector: Trade and Foreign Investments 223
- International Economic Policies in the ISI Period 223
- "Outward-Looking" Policies of the 1964-74 Period 225
- From Debt-Led Growth to the Debt Crisis 226
- Opening of the Economy in the 1990s 226
- Statistical Summary of Brazil's International Position 226
- Brazil's Ties with the Outside World 228
- Complementarity versus Competitiveness in Brazil's Relations with the Industrialized World 234
- Foreign Investments in Brazil: Their Benefits and Costs 235
- Historical Perspective 235
- 1950-86 Period 237
- Benefits and Costs of Multinationals: Some General Considerations 240
- A Brief Survey of the Empirical Evidence 248
- Government Policies and the Behavior of Multinationals in Brazil 253
- Era of Neoliberalism: The 1990s 254
- A Statistical Picture of FDI in Brazil 256
- Impact of Foreign Investments in the 1990s 258
- 12. Brazil's Extended Public Sector: Its Changing Role and Privatization 267
- Stages in the Growth of State Involvement in the Economy 268
- 1970s and the 1980s 274
- Degree of State Control over the Economy 276
- Government Control over Savings and Their Distribution 279
- Decay of Public Enterprises 283
- Privatization as a Solution to the State's Bankruptcy 284
- Privatization Process in the Collor Administration 286
- Privatization in the 1990s 287
- Wealth Distribution Effect of Privatization 289
- Income Distribution Effect of Privatization 292
- 13. Banking System: Privatization and Restructuring 301
- A Brief Historical Perspective 302
- Bank Behavior During High Inflation Periods 304
- Stability and Institutional Change 306
- Banking Sector Restructuring 310
- Implications 316
- 14. Regional Imbalances 323
- Degree of Regional Inequality 323
- Dynamics of Regional Inequalities 331
- Internal Population Migration 333
- Interaction between the Northeast and the Center-South 334
- Resource Transfers through the Fiscal Mechanism 339
- Regional Policies 340
- Regional Trends in the 1980s: The Northeast versus Brazil 343
- Northeast in an Increasingly Open Economy 346
- Structural Weaknesses of the Northeastern Economy 350
- Market, the State, and Regional Equity 351
- 15. Performance of Agriculture 357
- Growth of Agricultural Output Since World War II 358
- Changes in Production Methods 361
- Regional Patterns 365
- Sources of Agricultural Growth 366
- Distribution of Land 369
- Rural Poverty 372
- Agricultural Policies 373
- Brazil's Agriculture in the 1990s 376
- Policy Reforms in the Late 1980s and 1990s 378
- Agricultural Employment 380
- 16. Environmental Aspects of Brazil's Development 385
- Economic Expansion and the Environment in Historical Perspective 386
- Industrialization, Urban Growth, and the Environment 387
- Industrial Pollution 390
- Urban Pollution 395
- Urban Poverty and the Environment 396
- Summary View of the Environmental Degradation from Urban Poverty 397
- Agricultural Growth and the Environment 400
- Amazon Strategy and the Environment 405
- Extent of Amazon deforestation 409
- Brazil's Environmental Policies 412
- Policies to Curtail Urban-Industrial Pollution 413
- 17. Health in Brazil's Development Process 425
- Health Record 426
- Health and Health Care in Brazil Prior to the Mid-1980s 429
- 1988 Constitution and Its Impact on Brazil's Health Delivery System 432
- Private versus Public Contributions to Brazil's Health Care 434
- Distribution of Health Care 434
- Health Status in Brazil 435
- Demand for Health Services 436
- Expenditures on Health 436
- Financing of Health Care 437
- 18. Structural Changes in Brazil's Industrial Economy, 1960-95 441
- General Structural Changes 442
- Brazil's Post-World War II Industrial History 443
- Structural Changes, 1959-98 446.
- Description
- xix, 498 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [473]-491) and index.
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[473]-491) and index.g| Part I t| Historical Perspective g| 1 -- t| Physical and Demographic Setting g| 5 -- t| Natural Resources g| 6 -- t| Population g| 7 -- g| 2. t| Historical Perspective g| 11 -- t| Colonial Economy g| 11 -- t| Early Socioeconomic Organization g| 11 -- t| Sugar Cycle g| 12 -- t| Gold Cycle and the Rise of Mercantilist Control g| 14 -- t| Colony's Last Years g| 16 -- t| Century after Independence g| 16 -- t| Coffee Cycle g| 17 -- t| Other Exports g| 18 -- t| Public Policies in the Nineteenth Century g| 19 -- g| 3. t| Early Industrial Growth g| 25 -- t| Pre-World War I Period g| 25 -- t| World War I g| 31 -- t| 1920s g| 32 -- t| Great Depression g| 35 -- t| Industrial Growth during the Depression g| 36 -- t| World War II g| 38 -- t| Evaluation of Brazil's Early Industrial Growth g| 38 -- t| Early Attempts at Planning in Brazil g| 41 -- g| 4. t| Post-World War II Industrialization Drive: 1946-61 g| 47 -- t| Brazil's Foreign Trade and Its Role in the Economy g| 47 -- t| World Market for Brazil's Traditional Exports in the 1950s g| 49 -- t| Immediate Postwar Years g| 51 -- t| Exchange Controls: 1946-53 g| 53 -- t| Multiple Exchange Rate System: 1953-57 g| 54 -- t| Changes in Exchange Controls: 1957-61 g| 56 -- t| Exchange Reform: 1961-63 g| 58 -- t| Law of Similars g| 58 -- t| Special Plans and Programs g| 59 -- t| Special Incentive Programs g| 62 -- t| Effects of Industrialization Policies g| 63 -- t| Imbalances and Bottlenecks g| 66 -- g| 5. t| Stagnation and Boom: Brazil in the 1960s and 1970s g| 71 -- t| Two Views of the Stagnation of the 1960s g| 72 -- t| Economic Policies Since 1964 g| 73 -- t| Achievements of the Post-1964 Governments g| 75 -- t| Government Sector g| 77 -- t| Issues Surrounding the Post-1964 Growth Experience g| 78 -- t| Departure from Post-1964 Orthodoxy g| 83 -- g| 6. t| From Adjustment to External Shocks to the Debt Crisis: 1973-85 g| 87 -- t| First Oil Shock: Impact and Reaction g| 87 -- t| Political Changes g| 88 -- t| Geisel Policies g| 88 -- t| Growing International Indebtedness g| 90 -- t| Toward the Debt Crisis g| 93 -- t| Economic Performance in 1980 g| 98 -- t| Adjustment through Recession g| 99 -- t| Macro Impact of the Adjustment Period g| 103 -- g| 7. t| Resurgence of Inflation in Brazil: 1974-86 g| 117 -- t| Nature of Brazil's Inflation: Two Visions g| 118 -- t| General Background to Brazil's Inflation g| 122 -- t| Inflationary Impact of External Shocks g| 123 -- t| Propagating Mechanism of Inflation g| 124 -- t| Monetary Aspects of the Inflationary Process g| 130 -- t| Brazil's Authoritarian Budgetary Process g| 135 -- t| Indexation g| 136 -- t| Controlling Inflation through Index Tampering g| 138 -- t| Price Controls g| 138 -- g| 8. t| Decline and Fall of Brazil's Cruzado g| 145 -- t| Events Leading to the Cruzado Plan g| 148 -- t| Cruzado Plan g| 148 -- t| Emerging Difficulties and Contradictions g| 150 -- t| Breakdown of the Cruzado Plan g| 165 -- t| External Debt g| 167 -- t| Evaluation g| 168 -- g| 9. t| Brazil's Drifting Economy: Stagnation and Inflation during 1987-93 g| 173 -- t| General Setting g| 173 -- t| Sarney after the Cruzado Collapse g| 175 -- t| Fiscal Impact of the 1988 Constitution g| 178 -- t| Collor Period--Collor I g| 178 -- t| Collor Period--Collor II g| 182 -- t| Itamar Franco Period: An Interregnum g| 187 -- t| A Statistical Review of the Years 1987-93 g| 188 -- t| Brazil's Stagflation, 1987-93: An Interpretation g| 192 -- g| 10. t| Illusion of Stability: The Brazilian Economy Under Cardoso g| 199 -- t| Plano Real g| 199 -- t| Initial Impact of the Real g| 201 -- t| Exchange Rate Becomes the Key Policy Instrument g| 204 -- t| Unresolved Fiscal Dilemma g| 205 -- t| Capital Flows g| 212 -- t| Performance of the Real Economy g| 212 -- t| Banking Crisis g| 214 -- t| Crisis 1998-99 g| 215 -- g| Part II t| Contemporary Issues g| 221 -- g| 11. t| External Sector: Trade and Foreign Investments g| 223 -- t| International Economic Policies in the ISI Period g| 223 -- t| "Outward-Looking" Policies of the 1964-74 Period g| 225 -- t| From Debt-Led Growth to the Debt Crisis g| 226 -- t| Opening of the Economy in the 1990s g| 226 -- t| Statistical Summary of Brazil's International Position g| 226 -- t| Brazil's Ties with the Outside World g| 228 -- t| Complementarity versus Competitiveness in Brazil's Relations with the Industrialized World g| 234 -- t| Foreign Investments in Brazil: Their Benefits and Costs g| 235 -- t| Historical Perspective g| 235 -- t| 1950-86 Period g| 237 -- t| Benefits and Costs of Multinationals: Some General Considerations g| 240 -- t| A Brief Survey of the Empirical Evidence g| 248 -- t| Government Policies and the Behavior of Multinationals in Brazil g| 253 -- t| Era of Neoliberalism: The 1990s g| 254 -- t| A Statistical Picture of FDI in Brazil g| 256 -- t| Impact of Foreign Investments in the 1990s g| 258 -- g| 12. t| Brazil's Extended Public Sector: Its Changing Role and Privatization g| 267 -- t| Stages in the Growth of State Involvement in the Economy g| 268 -- t| 1970s and the 1980s g| 274 -- t| Degree of State Control over the Economy g| 276 -- t| Government Control over Savings and Their Distribution g| 279 -- t| Decay of Public Enterprises g| 283 -- t| Privatization as a Solution to the State's Bankruptcy g| 284 -- t| Privatization Process in the Collor Administration g| 286 -- t| Privatization in the 1990s g| 287 -- t| Wealth Distribution Effect of Privatization g| 289 -- t| Income Distribution Effect of Privatization g| 292 -- g| 13. t| Banking System: Privatization and Restructuring g| 301 -- t| A Brief Historical Perspective g| 302 -- t| Bank Behavior During High Inflation Periods g| 304 -- t| Stability and Institutional Change g| 306 -- t| Banking Sector Restructuring g| 310 -- t| Implications g| 316 -- g| 14. t| Regional Imbalances g| 323 -- t| Degree of Regional Inequality g| 323 -- t| Dynamics of Regional Inequalities g| 331 -- t| Internal Population Migration g| 333 -- t| Interaction between the Northeast and the Center-South g| 334 -- t| Resource Transfers through the Fiscal Mechanism g| 339 -- t| Regional Policies g| 340 -- t| Regional Trends in the 1980s: The Northeast versus Brazil g| 343 -- t| Northeast in an Increasingly Open Economy g| 346 -- t| Structural Weaknesses of the Northeastern Economy g| 350 -- t| Market, the State, and Regional Equity g| 351 -- g| 15. t| Performance of Agriculture g| 357 -- t| Growth of Agricultural Output Since World War II g| 358 -- t| Changes in Production Methods g| 361 -- t| Regional Patterns g| 365 -- t| Sources of Agricultural Growth g| 366 -- t| Distribution of Land g| 369 -- t| Rural Poverty g| 372 -- t| Agricultural Policies g| 373 -- t| Brazil's Agriculture in the 1990s g| 376 -- t| Policy Reforms in the Late 1980s and 1990s g| 378 -- t| Agricultural Employment g| 380 -- g| 16. t| Environmental Aspects of Brazil's Development g| 385 -- t| Economic Expansion and the Environment in Historical Perspective g| 386 -- t| Industrialization, Urban Growth, and the Environment g| 387 -- t| Industrial Pollution g| 390 -- t| Urban Pollution g| 395 -- t| Urban Poverty and the Environment g| 396 -- t| Summary View of the Environmental Degradation from Urban Poverty g| 397 -- t| Agricultural Growth and the Environment g| 400 -- t| Amazon Strategy and the Environment g| 405 -- t| Extent of Amazon deforestation g| 409 -- t| Brazil's Environmental Policies g| 412 -- t| Policies to Curtail Urban-Industrial Pollution g| 413 -- g| 17. t| Health in Brazil's Development Process g| 425 -- t| Health Record g| 426 -- t| Health and Health Care in Brazil Prior to the Mid-1980s g| 429 -- t| 1988 Constitution and Its Impact on Brazil's Health Delivery System g| 432 -- t| Private versus Public Contributions to Brazil's Health Care g| 434 -- t| Distribution of Health Care g| 434 -- t| Health Status in Brazil g| 435 -- t| Demand for Health Services g| 436 -- t| Expenditures on Health g| 436 -- t| Financing of Health Care g| 437 -- g| 18. t| Structural Changes in Brazil's Industrial Economy, 1960-95 g| 441 -- t| General Structural Changes g| 442 -- t| Brazil's Post-World War II Industrial History g| 443 -- t| Structural Changes, 1959-98 g| 446.a| 2a| Brazil x| Economic conditions.a| HC187 .B147 2001 w| LC i| X004523717 l| STACKS m| ALDERMAN t| BOOK
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