Employment and Development under Globalization State and Economy in Brazil

by Cohn, Samuel

• ISBN13: 9781137001405
• ISBN10: 1137001402
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-08-21
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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.

Author Biography

Samuel Cohn is Professor of Sociology at Texas A and M University, USA.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Rethinking the State and Development: The Importance of Palliative Development	p. 1
What Would Have Happened If the Government Had Done Nothing	p. 20
O'Connorian Models of Development: How States Literally Build Economic Growth	p. 33
Major Infrastructure and the Larger Economy: The Central Importance of Airports (with Jessica Schuett)	p. 61
How Brazilian Vocational Education Reduces Poverty - Even If No One Wants to Hire the Trainees	p. 75
Government Effectiveness in the Face of Debt	p. 104
Why Reducing Taxes for Employers Does Not Raise Employment	p. 114
How Rent and Urban Verticalization Can Reduce Employment	p. 126
Frontier Development as Job Creation - With Social Costs	p. 141
When Does Not Being Green Reduce Employment? (with David Watkins)	p. 159
Palliative Development and the Great Theories of Development	p. 165
Development Strategies in a Post-Debt World	p. 178
Appendices
Data and sources	p. 191
Details of statistical results	p. 195
Notes	p. 201
Bibliography	p. 206
Index	p. 219
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