dc.contributor.advisor |
Veltmeyer, Henry |
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dc.coverage.spatial |
Brasil |
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dc.creator |
Lin, Zheng |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2011-05-09T12:32:24Z |
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dc.date.available |
2011-05-09T12:32:24Z |
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dc.date.issued |
1994 |
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dc.identifier.other |
HC187 L56 1994 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://library2.smu.ca/xmlui/handle/01/22605 |
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dc.description |
vi, 104 leaves ; 28 cm. |
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dc.description |
Includes abstract. |
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dc.description |
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 99-104). |
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dc.description.abstract |
This thesis is titled Structural Adjustment and Brazilian Economic Development. This study addresses the issue of structural adjustment in Brazil from a historical point of view, looking specifically at the fundamental impact of its policies on Brazil's dependency in the development process.
The Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) is a specific policy-lending program initiated by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in early 1980s, which is designed to stabilize distressed economy and to readjust the world economy into a neo-classical economic structure.
Originally, Brazil was a typical classical dependent economy. Since the 1950s Brazil initiated its industrialization process under the import substitution strategy which was aimed at establishing a self-sustaining industrial system on the basis of "state control", and successfully transformed from a colonial agriculture-dominated economy into an industrial economy.
In the 1960s, under the constraints of capital accumulation rooted in a colonial economic structure, Brazil introduced neo-classical economic policies, combining them with an ISI strategy under a stabilization program, creating the economic miracle by taking advantages of favourable international conditions. However, over-reliance on foreign capital and the world market led Brazil economy towards a dependent form of development.
In the 1970s, the debt crisis caused by unfavourable international conditions after a series of oil shocks forced Brazil to borrow from the IMF and to adopt its SAP, which introduced a package of free market policies, distorting the leading role of the state in Brazil's development process, and creating a dependent peripheral economy.
This thesis concludes that the SAP is not an appropriate strategy for Brazil's development, and is a program designed for the benefit of the core countries. |
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dc.description.provenance |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.publisher |
Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University |
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dc.subject.lcc |
HC187 |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Structural adjustment (Economic policy) -- Brazil |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Brazil -- Economic conditions |
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dc.title |
Structural adjustment and Brazilian economic development |
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dc.type |
Text |
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thesis.degree.name |
Master of Arts in International Development Studies |
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thesis.degree.level |
Masters |
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thesis.degree.discipline |
International Development Studies Program |
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thesis.degree.grantor |
Saint Mary's University (Halifax, N.S.) |
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