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Riordan Roett

Brazil

What Everyone Needs to Know®

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Brazil is one of the most important but puzzling countries in the world. A nation of 200 million people, it has vast natural resource reserves, rich cultural traditions, a middle class undergoing explosive growth, and social welfare policies that are models for much of the world ('la bolsa familia,' which provides a guaranteed income to poor families). And, after decades of authoritarian rule, it is a stable democracy. Yet it is beset by problems that no other advanced economy suffers from: staggeringly high crime rates, sky-high inequality levels, and endemic political corruption. Emblematic of these two sides of Brazil is the selection of R… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-022455-4
  • EAN: 9780190224554
  • Produktnummer: 20193382
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 240 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 803 KB

Über den Autor


Riordan Roett first discovered Brazil as a Fulbright Scholar in 1962. He chose to carry out his field research in the Brazilian Northeast in the city of Recife, a center of anti-establishment resentment. He returned to conduct his doctoral research in Recife and has been an analyst, commentator, and frequent author of works on Brazilian politics and foreign policy.

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