Brazil under Lula [electronic resource] : economy, politics, and society under the worker-president / edited by Joseph L. Love and Werner Baer.

This collection assesses the performance of Brazil's Lula da Silva, the only working-class president in Latin American history, in his first term. The contributing scholars deal with Lula's style of governance; the type of economic and social policies he adopted, in both their positive and...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Love, Joseph LeRoy, Jr, Baer, Werner, 1931-2016
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Political reform in Brazil : recent proposals, diagnosis, and a suggestion / José Antonio Cheibub
  • The macroeconomic record of the Lula administration, the roots of Brazil's inequailty, and attempts to overcome them / Edmund Amann and Werner Baer
  • Policy making in the first Lula government / Jorge Vianna Monteiro
  • Brazil's lack of growth / Jocildo Bezerra and Tiago V. de V. Cavalcanti
  • Regulation during the Lula government / Bernardo Mueller and André Rossi de Oliveira
  • Exchange rate policy, perceptions of risk, and external constraints under Lula / Donal V. Coes
  • Agricultural, agrarian, and environmental policy formation under Lula : the role of policy networks / Charles C. Mueller
  • The labor policies of the Lula government / Michael M. Hall
  • Lula's foreign policy : regional and global strategies / Paulo Roberto de Almeida
  • A spatial analysis of Bolsa família : is allocation targeting the needy? / Mônica A. Haddad
  • A report card for Lula : progress in education / Mary Arends-Kuenning
  • Reforming social security under Lula : continuities with Cardozo's policies / Maria Antonieta P. Leopoldi
  • Social policies, personal and regional income inequality in Brazil : an I-O analysis / Carlos R. Azzoni [and others]
  • Regional development policies, 2003-2006 / Luiz Ricardo Cavalcante and Simone Uderman
  • Northeast Brazil under the Lula government / Alexandre Rands Barros and André Matos Magalhães
  • The Lula government in historical perspective / Joseph L. Love.