Roots of Brazilian Relative Economic Backwardness by Alexandre Rands Barros

Roots of Brazilian Relative Economic Backwardness by Alexandre Rands Barros

Roots of Brazil’s Relative Economic Backwardness explains Brazil’s development level in light of modern theories regarding economic growth and international economics. It focuses on both the proximate and fundamental causes of Brazil’s slow development, turning currently dominant hypotheses upside down. To support its arguments, the book presents extensive statistical analysis of Brazilian long-term development, with some new series on per capita GDP, population ethnical composition, and human capital stock, among others. It is an important resource in the ongoing debate on the causes of Latin American underdeveloped economies.

The poor performance of the Brazilian economy since the 1980s has been object of an ever long debate about its causesThis book provides important insights into this debate, bringing a provocative interpretation about the historical development of the Brazilian economy that explains the roots of its backwardness. Based on modern theories about economic growth, the author presents new statistical indicators that support his claims. This is a stimulating contribution to the academic research on the Brazilian economy. --Carmem Feijo, Fluminense Federal University

Alexandre Rands Barros is Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A., and was Senior Associate Member in St. Antony´s College in the University of Oxford in England at two non-continuous moments. He was a Professor of Economics at Federal University of Pernambuco in Recife-PE, Brazil. Currently he is president in a Brazilian private company, although he continues to work on academic research about Brazilian Development.

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ISBN 13	9780128097564
ISBN 10	0128097566
Title	Roots of Brazilian Relative Economic Backwardness
Author	Alexandre Rands Barros
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Year published	2016-07-19
Number of pages	292
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