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Brazil: What Everyone Needs to Know (R)
Riordan Roett
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Paperback. Brazil is one of the largest economies in the world. Brazil: What Everyone Needs to Know evaluates the progress that has been made to date in consolodating democracy and addressing the challenging institutional issues that are obstacles to a higher level of development. Series: What Everyone Needs to Know. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; GTB; HBJK; HBL; RGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 300.
Brazil is one of the most important but puzzling countries in the world. A nation of 200 million people, it has vast natural resource reserves, rich cultural traditions, a middle class undergoing explosive growth, and social welfare policies that are models for much of the world ('la bolsa familia,' which provides a guaranteed income to poor families). And, after decades of authoritarian rule, it is a stable democracy. Yet it is beset by problems that no other advanced economy suffers from: staggeringly high crime rates, sky-high inequality levels, and endemic political corruption. Emblematic of these two sides of Brazil ... Read more
Brazil is one of the most important but puzzling countries in the world. A nation of 200 million people, it has vast natural resource reserves, rich cultural traditions, a middle class undergoing explosive growth, and social welfare policies that are models for much of the world ('la bolsa familia,' which provides a guaranteed income to poor families). And, after decades of authoritarian rule, it is a stable democracy. Yet it is beset by problems that no other advanced economy suffers from: staggeringly high crime rates, sky-high inequality levels, and endemic political corruption. Emblematic of these two sides of Brazil ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
What Everyone Needs to Know
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190224530
SKU
V9780190224530
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About Riordan Roett
Sarita and Don Johnston Professor & Director of Western Hemisphere Studies and the Latin American Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University-SAIS
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