Brazil under Lula
Subtitle: economy, politics, and society under the worker-president
By: edited by Joseph L. Love and Werner Baer.
Contributors: Love, Joseph LeRoy.; Baer, Werner, 1931-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780230608160
Subjects: Lula, -- 1945-; Brazil -- Politics and government -- 2003-; Brazil -- Economic conditions -- 1985-; Brazil -- Social conditions -- 1985-
Description: "This book offers the first multidisciplinary analysis of the impact of the government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his Workers' Party on Brazilian economy and society, as he begins his second four-year term."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Political reform in Brazil : recent proposals, diagnosis, and a suggestion / José Antonio Cheibub; title: The macroeconomic record of the Lula administration, the roots of Brazil's inequailty, and attempts to overcome them / Edmund Amann and Werner Baer; title: Policy making in the first Lula government / Jorge Vianna Monteiro; title: Brazil's lack of growth / Jocildo Bezerra and Tiago V. de V. Cavalcanti; title: Regulation during the Lula government / Bernardo Mueller and André Rossi de Oliveira; title: Exchange rate policy, perceptions of risk, and external constraints under Lula / Donal V. Coes; title: Agricultural, agrarian, and environmental policy formation under Lula : the role of policy networks / Charles C. Mueller; title: The labor policies of the Lula government / Michael M. Hall; title: Lula's foreign policy : regional and global strategies / Paulo Roberto de Almeida; title: A spatial analysis of Bolsa família : is allocation targeting the needy? / Mônica A. Haddad; title: A report card for Lula : progress in education / Mary Arends-Kuenning; title: Reforming social security under Lula : continuities with Cardozo's policies / Maria Antonieta P. Leopoldi; title: Social policies, personal and regional income inequality in Brazil : an I-O analysis / Carlos R. Azzoni ... [et al.]; title: Regional development policies, 2003-2006 / Luiz Ricardo Cavalcante and Simone Uderman; title: Northeast Brazil under the Lula government / Alexandre Rands Barros and André Matos Magalhães; title: The Lula government in historical perspective / Joseph L. Love.