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Author Cohn, Samuel, 1954-

Title Employment and development under globalization : state and economy in Brazil / Samuel Cohn
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 236 pages)
Series International political economy series
International political economy series.
Contents Rethinking the State and Development: the Importance of Palliative Development -- 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
Summary "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 a number of unjustly ignored government initiatives that substantially increase employment 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, uncontroversial and can be effectively implemented even by governments with fiscal crises and weak administrative capacity. Yet the result is development that reduces social inequality, relieves poverty and insures the more equitable division of well-being"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Labor market -- Brazil
Globalization -- Brazil
Development economics & emerging economies -- Brazil.
Development studies -- Brazil.
Regional studies -- Brazil.
Sociology: work & labour -- Brazil.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Regional Planning.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Developing Countries.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
Economics.
Economic policy
Globalization
Labor market
SUBJECT Brazil -- Economic policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008000207
Subject Brazil
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781137001412
1137001410