Employment and Development under Globalization [electronic resource] : State and Economy in Brazil /
Cohn, S.author.
Cohn lays out a new strategy of how states can produce economic development in poor nations - by considering barber shops, beauty parlours, hotels and restaurants in Brazil. Cohn considers the case of nations with budgetary limits that cannot afford to follow the East Asian model, and finds alternative policies that create jobs and reduce poverty.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Rethinking the State and Development: The Importance of Palliative Development; Chapter 2 What Would Have Happened If the Government Had Done Nothing; Chapter 3 O'Connorian Models of Development: How States Literally Build Economic Growth; Chapter 4 Major Infrastructure and the Larger Economy: The Central Importance of Airports; Chapter 5 How Brazilian Vocational Education Reduces Poverty - Even If No One Wants to Hire the Trainees; Chapter 6 Government Effectiveness in the Face of Debt
Chapter 7 Why Reducing Taxes for Employers Does Not Raise EmploymentChapter 8 How Rent and Urban Verticalization Can Reduce Employment; Chapter 9 Frontier Development as Job Creation - With Social Costs; Chapter 10 When Does Not Being Green Reduce Employment?; Chapter 11 Palliative Development and the Great Theories of Development; Chapter 12 Development Strategies in a Post-Debt World; Appendices; Data and sources; Details of statistical results; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cohn lays out a new strategy of how states can produce economic development in poor nations - by considering barber shops, beauty parlours, hotels and restaurants in Brazil. Cohn considers the case of nations with budgetary limits that cannot afford to follow the East Asian model, and finds alternative policies that create jobs and reduce poverty.
Political economy.
Latin America-Politics and government.
International relations.
Ethnology-Latin America.
Economic sociology.
Culture-Study and teaching.
International Political Economy.
Latin American Politics.
International Relations.
Latin American Culture.
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.
Regional and Cultural Studies.