Reforming Brazil

This groundbreaking work is the first volume in English to examine Brazil's historic policy reforms of the 1990s and the political, economic, and social results. Collecting essays by top Brazilianist scholars from various disciplines and intellectual traditions, Reforming Brazil provides new insights for international policy makers, economists, and scholars of Brazil.

List of Figures

vii

List of Tables

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

Part I: Introduction

Dawn of a New Era

3

(134)

Mauricio A. Font

1 The Reform Agenda

11

(18)

Anthony Peter Spanakos

Part II: Reforms

2 Monetary and Fiscal Reforms

29

(24)

Eliana Cardoso

3 Privatization: Reform through Negotiation

53

(18)

Maria Herminia Tavares de Almeida

4 Social Policy Reform

71

(22)

Sônia Draibe

5 Agrarian Reform

93

(22)

Anthony Pereira

6 Political Reform: The "Missing Link"

115

(22)

David Fleischer

Part III: Institutions, Actors, and Regional Context

7 Competitive Federalism and Distributive Conflict

137

(24)

Alfred Montero

8 Industrialists and Liberalization

161

(16)

Peter Kingstone

9 Entrepreneurs: The PNBE

177

(18)

Eduardo Rodrigues Gomes and Fabricia C. Guimarães

10 Working-Class Contention

195

(22)

Salvador Sandoval

11 Brazil and Hemispheric Integration

217

(14)

João Paulo Machado Peixoto

Abbreviations and Acronyms

231

(6)

Bibliography

237

(24)

Index

261

(6)

About the Contributors

267

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