Employment and development under globalization: state and economy in Brazil

Globalization has changed the models of development that are open to most states both in the industrialized and less industrialized world. Using the unusual case of Brazilian barbers, beauticians, hotels and restaurants, Samuel Cohn lays out a model of the role of the state and development that is an alternative to more highly visible formulas associated with East Asia. By identifying anumber of unjustly ignored government initiatives that substantially increaseemployment and significantly reduce poverty, he provides a third alternative to the development strategies being put forward by traditional and critical development scholars. The programs for achieving this are cheap, uncontroversialand can be effectively implemented even by governments with fiscal crises andweak administrative capacity. Yet the result is development that reduces social inequality, relieves poverty and insures the more equitable division of well-being. INDICE: Rethinking the State and Development: the Importance of PalliativeDevelopment .What Would Have Happened if the Government Had Done Nothing .O'Connorian Models of Development: How States Literally Build Economic Growth .Major Infrastructure and the Larger Economy: The Central Importance of Airports (with Jessica Schuett).How Brazilian Vocational Education Reduces Poverty - Even if No One Wants to Hire the Trainees.Government Effectiveness in the Face of Debt .Why Reducing Taxes For Employers Does Not Raise Employment .How Rent and Verticalization Can Reduce Employment.Frontier Development as Job Creation - With Social Costs .When Does Not Being Green Reduce Employment? (with David Watkins) .Palliative Development and the Great Theories of the State and Economic Growth .Development Strategies in a Post Debt World.

• ISBN: 978-1-1370-0140-5
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 20/07/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido