Political Economy of Brazil Recent Economic Performance

by Arestis, Philip; Saad-Filho, Alfredo

• ISBN13: 9780230542778
• ISBN10: 0230542778
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book examines a range of policy areas, such as inflation targeting, growth, public debt and fiscal policy. It contributes to the rich and ongoing debate on the economic policy reforms of the past decade in Brazil.

Author Biography

PHILIP ARESTIS is University Director of Research, Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy, University of Cambridge, Senior Research Fellow, Wolfson College Cambridge, UK, and Professor of Economics at the Levy Economics Institute, New York City, USA. His publications include Introducing Macroeconomic Modelling: An Econometric Study of the United Kingdom, Money, Pricing Distribution and Economic Integration, What Global Economic Crisis?, The Post-Bubble USA Economy, Financial Liberalization and Financial Developments in National and International Markets. He has been editor and joint editor, and has served on the editorial board of a number of journals.

ALFREDO SAAD-FILHO is Senior Lecturer in Political Economy of Development, Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London, UK.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. vii
List of Figures	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Neoliberalism, Democracy and Economic Policy in Brazil	p. 7
Lula's Government in Brazil: A New Left or the Old Populism?	p. 24
The Real Meaning of the Economic Policy of Lula's Government	p. 42
The Twilight of Lula's Government: Another Failed Experiment with Left-Wing Administrations?	p. 55
Lula's Social Policies: New Wine in Old Bottles?	p. 73
Assessing the Empirical Evidence on Inflation Targeting and Possible Lessons for Brazil	p. 94
Inflation Targeting in Emerging Countries: The Case of Brazil	p. 116
Fiscal Policy, Credit Availability and Financing of Regional Policies in Brazil: Has Lula's Government Changed Anything?	p. 141
Disentangling Policy and Politics: Non-Fiscal Implications of the Calculation of the PSBR in Brazil	p. 165
The Interest Rate During the Lula Government: A Research Agenda	p. 180
Fixed Income Debt Management and Uncertainty in the Lula Administration, 2002-2005	p. 194
Index	p. 217
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