Author : Raphael Bar-El
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 26,11 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1848551916
A book about the courageous decision taken by the Government of a Ceara, Brazil, to tackle the painful economic and social conflict caused by the enormous gap between rich and poor. It tells how the Governor of the State, Tasso Ribeiro Jereissati, decided to develop an understanding of the conflict between growth and distribution.
Author : A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 38,47 MB
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134121903
A host of internationally eminent scholars are brought together here to explore the structural causes of rural poverty and income inequality, as well as the processes of social exclusion and political subordination encountered by the peasantry and rural workers across a wide range of countries. This volume examines the intersection of politics and economics and provides a critical analysis and framework for the study of neo-liberal land policies in the current phase of globalization. Utilizing new empirical evidence from ten countries, it provides an in-depth analysis of key country studies, a comparative analysis of agrarian reforms and their impact on rural poverty in Africa, Asia, Latin America and transition countries. Presenting an agrarian reform policy embedded in an appropriate development strategy, which is able to significantly reduce and hopefully eliminate rural poverty, this work is a key resource for postgraduate students studying in the areas of development economics, development studies and international political economy.
Author : Mauricio Augusto Font
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 31,29 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780847683550
This book re-examines the relationship between development strategy and political regime in twentieth-century Brazil. The first part of the study examines the beginning in the 1920s and 1930s of the centralized regime and state-centered development model later challenged in the 1980s, taking into account the economic and political role of Sao Paulo relative to the federal government. The analysis provides a distinctive account of the regime ruling Brazil from the 1930s through the 1980s. The second part focuses on the process of economic and political change in the 1980s and 1990s, paying particular attention to the Cardoso administration.
Author : Andrea Cattaneo
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 22,70 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0896291308
Since the 1970s, federal policies promoting migration and encouraging agricultural development of large farms, logging, and ranching have led to the deforestation of vast areas of the Amazon rainforest.Though these policies have largely been replaced, deforestation continues. What effects do current macroeconomic and regional policies and events have on deforestation and on the well-being of settlers on the agricultural frontier? This report identifies the links between the agriculture and logging sectors in the Amazon, economic growth, poverty alleviation, and natural resource degradation in the region and in Brazil as a whole.It considers the effects of currency devaluation, building roads and other infrastructure in the Amazon, property rights, adoption of technological change, and fiscal incentives and disincentives to deforest.The results are sometimes counterintuitive, but shed new light on why slowing deforestation is so difficult and on the trade-offs between environmental and economic goals.
Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 21,16 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Economic assistance
ISBN : 9780821352069
Author : Stephen Baranyi
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 24,53 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Land reform
ISBN : 1896770673
Co-published by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).
Author : Byron Garoz Herrarte
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 26,43 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Land reform
ISBN :
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Publisher : Editora E-papers
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 27,31 MB
Release : 2012
Category :
ISBN : 8576503328
Author : Rebecca Tarlau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 31,55 MB
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 1317214854
Contradictions between impressive levels of economic growth and the persistence of poverty and inequality are perhaps nowhere more evident than in rural Brazil. While Brazil might appear to be an example of the potential harmony between large-scale, export-oriented agribusiness and small-scale family farming, high levels of rural resistance contradict this vision. In this volume, individual contributions from a variety of researchers across the field highlight seven key characteristics of contemporary Brazilian resistance that have broader resonance in the region and beyond: the growth of international networks, the changing structure of state–society collaboration, the deepening of territorial claims, the importance of autonomy, the development of alternative economies, continued opposition to dispossession, and struggles over the meaning of nature. By analyzing rural mobilization in Brazil, this collection offers a range of insights relevant to rural contention globally. Each contribution in this title increases our understanding of alternative agricultural production, large-scale development projects, education, race and political parties in the contemporary agrarian context. This book was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies.
Author : Parthasarathi Shome
Publisher : Springer
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 42,73 MB
Release : 2015-03-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 813222101X
This volume brings together research on development in three major areas of contemporary global relevance: agriculture and food security, energy, and the institutions of national innovation. Covering six of the largest emerging and developing economies (EDEs) in the world, three Asian (China, India and Malaysia), two Latin American (Brazil and Mexico), and one African (South Africa), the book offers insights on how the major EDEs have addressed the complex and increasingly interrelated issues of agricultural growth, food security and access to energy as part of their growth and development experience over the last three decades. Underscoring the broader view of institutions of national innovation capacities, the volume presents the role of domestic policy and macroeconomic fluctuations in shaping the innovation capacities and development policy in these countries. The book is divided into three main parts. Part I addresses agriculture and food security, while Part II focuses on the energy sector, including the importance of clean energy and energy efficiency in improving access. Parts I and II also cover the role of the major sector-specific innovations for increasing productivity and growth. Subsequently, Part III examines the importance of economy-wide institutions of innovation in the context of supporting growth and development.
