An in-depth analysis of the role of the Brazilian state in its economic development

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The third world is a subject which has caused much ink. Several features can be found as economic problems, political instability, authoritarian regimes. However, some countries as the tigers (South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong-Kong) succeed in dealing with their economic and political problems to become developing countries. Latin America did not follow the same way. Many countries of Latin America have still a troubling economic situation with deep wealth inequalities. During the 1960s "dependency theories" tried to explain why Latin America and other Third World regions were not developing as the North. Some of the more provocative work has been produced by Latin Americans. They were known as dependency theorists and they examined the unequal trade between LDCs which used to sell raw materials to northern industrialized countries that exported manufactured products. The general idea was that some countries had their economy conditioned by the expansion of others.

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[...] State and Society in Brazil: Continuity and Change (1987), P109 Ben Ross Schneider, Politics within the State: Elite Bureaucrats and Industrial Policy in Authoritarian Brazil, (1991), P34 Ibid ISI means 'the import substitution industrialization it consists of a selective liberalisation of imports decided by the state. www.pouvoir-ouvrier.org/mondialisation/fmi.html - 44k - The USA proposed the washington consensus in order to dismantle the developmental state in Latin America. Richard Feinberg, Carlos H.Waisman and Lean Zamosc, ??Civil society and democracy in Latin America ? P.140 Richard Feinberg, Carlos H.Waisman and Lean Zamosc, ??Civil society and democracy in Latin America ? P.27. Riordan Roett, Brazil: Politics in a Patrimonial Society. [...]

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[...] Viotti and Mark V. Kauppi, International Relations, Realism, Pluralism, Globalism Macmillan Publishing Company P.408. Howard J. Wiarda, ??Historical Determinants of the Latin American State ? in Menno Vellinga, The Changing Role of the State in Latin America, (1998), P32 Peter H. Smith, ??The rise and fall of the developmental state in Latin America ? in Menno Vellinga, The Changing Role of the State in Latin America, (1998), p.53. Menno Vellinga, ??The Changing rôle of the state in Latin America ? [...]

[...] The authoritarian bureaucracy was isolated and under the control of particularistic and partisan pressures. The Vargas administration, Getúlio Dornelles Vargas was president of Brazil from 1930 to 1945, and was the creator of this isolated bureaucracy which has been effective in implementing economic policies. However, the negative effect was the under development of a public domain based on impersonal procedures[10]. The masses did not trust this bureaucracy and did not have the possibility to express themselves. Even the main political parties were built by Vargas[11], parties which became resources for patronage. [...]

[...] Plus, if the IFM was a chance for the Brazilian state to adopt liberalism it did not mean that this country was allowed to chose its economy policy. The end of the state intervention has more symbolized the IFM intervention than a laissez faire, laissez passer Nowadays Brazil can be seen as a strong state which is able to keep control over the society, nevertheless it should not be forgotten that the Brazilian bureaucracy is still manipulated by clientelism and the inequalities are still very deep. [...]