Welfare Designs and Peripheral Realities: The Brazilian Dilemma

Dilip Loundo
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Dilip Loundo: Goa University

Chapter 16 in Welfare States and the Future, 2005, pp 272-296 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter analyses the welfare policies in Brazil since the 1930s, when efforts towards state-led industrialization took place. It argues that welfare rhetoric and policies ended up serving a model of economic development where capital accumulation resulted, to a great extent and paradoxically, from incremental inequality and poverty among large contingents of the urban and rural populations. Even if social sacrifices were expected in a process of late/peripheral industrialization, there was hope that the state would have functioned as balancing broker. But far from that, the state established a bureaucratic network of social control ranging from populist/ corporatist to repressive/clientelist approaches, which propelled patrimonialism, corruption and external dependency.

Keywords: Civil Society; Welfare State; Capital Accumulation; Human Development Index; Welfare Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230554917_16

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