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1 online resource (394 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781107031593
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9781107348264
Content:
This book explores the emergence of a new developmental state in Latin America and its significance for law and development theory. Contrasting the Brazilian experience with Colombia and Mexico, the book underscores the unique features of Brazil's trajectory and the importance of this experience for understanding the role of law in development today
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Cover -- Law and the New Developmental State -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Law, State, and the New Developmentalism: An Introduction -- Law and Development in Historical Perspective -- The Changing Role of the State in Latin America and New Ideas about Development Policy -- The Role of the State in Developmentalism and the Rise of Neoliberalism -- Latin American Alternatives -- Globalization and Learning in the New Developmentalism -- Brazil in the New Developmentalist Literature -- Law and the New Developmentalism: Summary of the Volume -- Methodological Observations: Complexity and Contradiction in Law and Development -- The Complex Relationship between Policy Change and Legal Change -- Law in Action versus Law in the Books -- Layering and Contradiction -- Gap between Discourse and Policy -- Law as Help and Hindrance -- Case Studies: The Brazilian Legal Experience in Latin American Context -- Part I: New Industrial Policies: Global Insertion, Productive Transformation, Investment Strategies, and Flexible Law -- Part II: Trade Law: Carving Out Development Policy Space within the WTO Regime -- Part III: Social Policy and Equity: Two Approaches to the Relationship between Social Policy, Law, and Development Strategy -- Conclusion -- 2 New State Activism in Brazil and the Challenge for Law -- Introduction: From the "Long 1990s" (1988-2004) to New State Activism -- Institutional and Political Background: The New Democratic Constitution of 1988 and the Cardoso Administration -- New State Activism Emerges -- Macroeconomic Continuity -- Industrial Policy -- Social Policy -- Brazil's New State Activism: Something New Under the Sun? -- Accounting for the Rise and Shape of the New State Activism -- A Political Moment -- Structural Elements
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Developmental State, Industrial Policy, and Developmental Bank: Some Reminiscences of the Developmental Period -- Crisis of the Developmental State and Innovation Era: Brazil Falling Behind and Attempting to React -- Developmental Crisis and the Brazilian Economy Falling Behind -- Brazilian Attempt to React: Innovation-Based Strategies and Innovation-Oriented Policies -- New Developmental State, Innovation Policy, and New Development Bank? The Role of BNDES in Financing Innovation -- BNDES's Institutional Trajectory Toward Innovation -- BNDES Legal Tools and Legal Action -- BNDES as an Angel Investor: Contracts with Nonrefundable Resources (FUNTEC Resources) -- Fixed-Income Financial Contracts: A Combination of Formal Rules and Informal Governance -- Equity Investments: BNDES as Venture Capitalist -- Indirect Participation: Investment Funds -- The Political Economy of Innovation-Oriented Development Bank -- The Limits of the Innovation-Oriented Developmental State: From Institutional Learning to Institutional Practice -- Limits of Political Economy: Outward Constraints -- Government Failure and "Crowding Out": Inward Constraints -- Concluding Remarks -- Part II Trade Law: Carving Out Development Policy Space within the WTO Regime -- 5 Carving Out Policy Autonomy for Developing Countries in the World Trade Organization: The Experience of Brazil and Mexico -- Introduction -- The Debate about Policy Autonomy in the WTO -- Liberal Trade versus Development Scholars -- Structural versus Pragmatic Development Scholars -- The WTO Limits on Country's Policy Autonomy -- Restrictions -- Exceptions -- Countries' Ability to Carve Out Policy Autonomy -- Opportunities Arising from Strategic Lawyering -- In Theory -- In Practice -- Rule-Based and Doctrinal Space for Countries' Policy Preferences -- Environmental Regulations -- Labor Standards
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Intellectual Property -- Linking Legal Capacity to a Development Strategy -- The Cases of Brazil and Mexico -- Differences in Trade Promotion and Industrial Policy -- Brazil -- Mexico -- Differences in Development Banks and Export Finance -- Legal Capacity in the Service of Policy Autonomy -- Differences in Legal Capacity -- Brazil -- Mexico -- Differences in Policy Objectives -- Differences in Litigation Experience -- As Complainants -- As Respondents -- The Brazil Aircraft Case and the Export Subsidies Prohibition -- The Limits of Strategic Litigation -- Conclusion -- 6 Developmental Responses to the International Trade Legal Game: Cases of Intellectual Property and Export Credit Law Reforms in Brazil -- Key Reforms of the Trade Arena in Brazil -- "Fair Tales"? About HIV/AIDS Policy for Intellectual Property Rights and Public Trade Finance to the Civil Aircraft Industry -- Intellectual Property: Top-Down Alignment versus Bottom-Up Resistance -- International Standards on Intellectual Property Protection for the Pharmaceutical Industry Incorporated into the Brazilian Leg -- The Particularities of Intellectual Property Rights in the Pharmaceutical Market in Brazil -- The Resistance Spurred by the HIV/AIDS Movements: Mobilizing Legal Knowledge -- Brazilian Foreign Policy Review and Its Spillover Effect at the International Level -- Are there Development Lessons to Take from this Case? -- The Particularities Regarding Trade Finance to the Civil Aircraft Industry in a Developing Market -- Embraer Elected as the National Champion in a Period of No Industrial Policy -- The Embraer Case in the WTO and the Hidden Information on the Limits of the Multilateral Trade System -- Are there Development Lessons to Take from this Case? -- Trade Finance Facing Local and International Challenges -- Concluding Notes of Two Distinct Cases -- A Final Remark
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Market Failures: Innovation, Infrastructure, Financial Sector, and Competitiveness -- Social Debt -- International Embeddedness and the Need to Spur Competitiveness -- Structural Elements: Conditioning Factors -- Other Influences on the Emergence of NSA: Enhanced Government Efficiency and New Economic Theories -- The Challenge for Law -- New Roles, New Frameworks of Analysis, and New Functionalities -- Flexibility and Synergy in Industrial Policy -- Orchestration and Decentralization in Social Policy -- Experimentation and Synergy in Labor Law -- Building Legal Capacity for Development: Trade Law -- Conclusion: Assessing the Brazilian Experience in Development Policy and Law -- Part I New Industrial Policies: Global Insertion, Productive Transformation, Investment Strategies, and Flexible Law -- 3 Understanding Neo-Developmentalism in Latin America: New Industrial Policies in Brazil and Colombia -- The Fall of the Washington Consensus and the Rise of the Left in Latin America -- The Emergence of a New Development Consensus and the Comeback of Industrial Policies -- From Discourse to Practice: Institutions and Implementation of the New Development Strategy -- International Insertion Policies in Brazil and Colombia: FTAs -- Macro-Institutional Convergence in International Insertion -- Divergent Policy Implementation in International Insertion -- New Industrial Policies in Brazil and Colombia: Productive Transformation Policies -- Macro-Institutional Convergence in Productive Transformation Policies -- Colombian Productive Transformation Policies: Convergence toward the New Development Model -- Divergent Implementation Strategies in Productive Transformation Policies -- Conclusions -- 4 Rediscovering the Developmental Path? Development Bank, Law, and Innovation Financing in the Brazilian Economy
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Part III Social Policy and Equity: Two Approaches to the Relationship between Social Policy, Law, and Development Strategy -- 7 Decentralization and Coordination in Social Law and Policy: The Bolsa Família Program -- Bolsa Família and the Roles of Law in (New) Developmental Policies -- Social Policy in Brazil from 1930 to 1988 -- Brazilian Welfare State after 1988 -- Bolsa Família and Its Decentralization and Coordination Tools -- Cadastro Único: Decentralized Targeting and Coordinated Management -- IGD: Incentive Mechanisms for Local Performance -- Roles of Law in Development Policies: A Functional Approach -- Law as Policy Framework -- Law as Institutional Arrangement -- Law as a Toolbox for Policy Implementation -- Law as Participation and Accountability Channels -- Roles of Law in Bolsa Família -- Law as a Framework -- Law as Institutional Arrangement -- Law as a Toolbox for Policy Implementation -- Concluding Remarks -- 8 Social Policy and the New Development State -- Familias en Acción: An Example of NDS or a Weak Attempt at Attacking Marginal Poverty? -- History and Design -- Implementation of the Program -- Target Population and Coverage -- Procedure to Become a Beneficiary -- 1) Identification of Municipalities and Families Beneficiaries -- 2) Implementation Procedures -- Types of Subsidies -- Impact and Critiques -- Arguments in Favor of Familias en Acción -- Critiques -- 1) Populism -- 2) Paternalism -- 3) Critiques of the gendered dimension of the program -- Path dependence: historical obstacles faced by transformative social policies -- Conclusions -- Index
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Print version Trubek, David M. Law and the New Developmental State New York : Cambridge University Press,c2013 ISBN 9781107031593
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