Bibliograph

Brazil since 1980, Francisco Vidal Luna, Herbert S. Klein

Type

Label

Brazil since 1980, Francisco Vidal Luna, Herbert S. Klein

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Brazil since 1980

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

94950681

Responsibility statement

Francisco Vidal Luna, Herbert S. Klein

Series statement

The World since 1980Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

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.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of 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

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