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Brazil since 1980 / Francisco Vidal Luna, Herbert S. Klein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Luna, Francisco Vidal, author.
- Klein, Herbert S., author.
- Series:
- World since 1980.
- The World since 1980
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brazil--Economic conditions--1985-.
- Brazil.
- Brazil--Economic conditions--1964-1985.
- Brazil--Politics and government--2003-.
- Brazil--Politics and government--1985-2002.
- Brazil--Politics and government--1964-1985.
- Brazil--Social conditions--1985-.
- Brazil--Social conditions--1964-1985.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 267 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is a general survey of Brazilian society, economy, and political system since 1980. It describes the basic changes occurring as Brazil was transformed from a predominantly rural and closed economy under military rule into a modern democratic, industrial and urbanized society, with an extraordinary world class commercial agriculture in the past 60 years. In this period, Brazil passed from a pre-modern high fertility and mortality society to a modern low fertility and mortality one, the economy approached hyper inflation many times, and it abandoned a policy of protected industrialization to an economy opened to world trade. The advances and the failures of these changes are examined for the impact on questions of growth and equality. The book is designed as a basic introduction to contemporary Brazil from a recent historical perspective and is one of the first such comprehensive surveys of recent Brazilian history and development in any language.
- Contents:
- 1. Political evolution
- 2. The economy
- 3. Financial sector
- 4. Agriculture
- 5. Industry and mining
- 6. Demographic change in Brazil since 1980
- 7. Education, social welfare, and health care
- 8. Inequality : class, residence, and race.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-15952-0
- 1-280-56812-7
- 0-511-24152-6
- 0-511-24048-1
- 0-511-24194-1
- 0-511-75607-0
- 0-511-31702-6
- 0-511-24100-3
- OCLC:
- 171139735
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