Table of Contents

1. Introduction
Edmund Amann and Carlos Azzoni

PART I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

2. The Colonial Economy
Flavio Versiani

3. The 19th and Early 20th Centuries
André Villela

4. Brazilian Structuralism
Joseph Love

5. Brazil's Import-Substitution Industrialization
Werner Baer

6. Experiences of Inflation and Stabilization, 1960-1990
Fernando Holanda

7. Leviathan Captured: Neoliberalism as Problem and Solution in Brazil
Philippe Faucher

8. Growth Volatility and Economic Growth in Brazil
Jorge Arbache and Sarquis J.B. Sarquis

PART II: MACRO POLICY AND INSTITUTIONS

9. The Brazilian Development Bank
Ricardo Cavalcante

10. The Evolution of Brazil's Banking System
Gustavo Cortes and Renato Marcondes

11. Brazil's Policy-Making Institutions, Quasi Stagnation and the Interest-Exchange Rate Trap
Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira

PART III: THE PRODUCTIVE SECTORS

12. Evolution and Sectoral Competiveness of the Brazilian Manufacturing Industry
Paulo César Morceiro

13. The Agricultural Sector
Carlos Bacha

14. Traditional Agriculture and Land Distribution in Brazil
Charles Mueller

15. Brazil's Agricultural Modernization and EMBRAPA
Geraldo Martha and Eliseu Alves

16. Manufacturing, Services and the Productivity Gap
Jorge Arbache

17. Energy in Brazil: Past and Future
José Goldemberg

18. Infrastructure
Edmund Amann, Werner Baer, Juan Villa, and Thomas Trebat

19. Trade Policies, from the 1930s to the present
Simão Silber

PART IV: BRAZIL'S REGIONS
20. Regional Disparities
Carlos Azzoni and Eduardo Haddad

21. Brazil's Northeast
Alexandre Rands

PART V: SOCIO-ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS
22. Changes in Income distribution in Brazil
Rodolfo Hoffmann

23. The Development of Brazilian Education: a Tale of Lost Opportunities?
Claudio de Moura Castro

24. Antipoverty Transfers and Poverty Reduction
Armando Barrientos

25. South-South Cooperation for Social Development: Brazil and Africa Examined
Anthony Hall

26. Labour Market Development in Brazil: Formalization at Last?
Celia Lessa Kerstenetsky and Danielle Carusi Machado

27. Environmental Issues
Ariaster B. Chimeli

28. The Economics of Health in Brazil
Antonio Campino, Maria Dolores Montoya Diaz, and Flavia Mori Sarti

PART VI: BRAZIL AND THE WORLD ECONOMY

29. Brazil, the BRICs and the changing landscape of global economic governance
Peri Silva

30. Brazilian Trade and International Economic Prospects in an Anti-Globalization Era
Donald Coes

31. The Evolution of Foreign Direct Investment in Brazil
Breno Augusto da Silva e Silva

32. Multinational Corporations from Brazil
Edmund Amann

PART VII: THE CHANGING ROLE OF THE STATE

33. The Rise and Fall of State Enterprises
Armando Castelar Pinheiro

34. Antitrust and Competition Policy in Brazil
Eduardo Pontual Ribeiro, Camila Pires-Alves, and Luis Carlos D. Prado

35. Corruption Scandals, the Evolution of Anti-Corruption Institutions, and their Impact on Brazil's Economy
Mariana Prado and Lindsey Carson

About the Author

Edmund Amann is Professor of Brazilian Studies at Leiden University. Previous to this he was Reader in Development Economics at the University of Manchester and Research Fellow at the University of Oxford Centre for Brazilian Studies.

Carlos Azzoni is Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Economics and Administration at the University of São Paulo. His research focuses on questions of regional development and inter-regional disparities.

Werner Baer was Lemann Professor of Economics at the University of Ilinois, Urban-Champaign. Prior to this he held a Chair at Vanderbilt University. Professor Baer's work focused on processes of economic development, industrialization and poverty alleviation.

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