Cardoso's Brazil
Subtitle: A Land for Sale (Critical Currents in Latin American Perspective)
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Published: November 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780742526310
Subjects: American history; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Latin America - General; Economic policy; Business / Economics / Finance; Public Policy - Economic Policy; History; Investments, Foreign; History: World; Brazil; Latin America; Government - International; Development - Economic Development; History / Latin America; Privatization; 1985-; Agriculture and state; Economic conditions
Description: "Offering a systematic, critical analysis of the presidency of Fernando Cardoso, this ambitious case study assesses government policies within the framework of the "new economic model" of globalization and structural adjustment.

Petras and Veltmeyer argue that Cardoso paved the way for what amounted to the takeover of a large and important part of Brazil's economy by foreign investors. The authors discuss the neoliberal model of capitalist development, the privatization of key sectors and enterprises, the human cost of structural adjustment, and the search for a community-based form of local development.

The crisis in agriculture and the dynamic responses of the country's rural landless workers precipitated the rise of Brazil's populist new president, Lula, whom the authors charge has started down the same path as his predecessor."--Jacket.