Format:
xiv, 236 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781137001412
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1283532697
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9781283532693
Series Statement:
International political economy series (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Content:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Content:
Cohn lays out a new strategy of how states can produce economic development in poor nations - by considering barber shops, beauty parlours, hotels and restaurants in Brazil. Cohn considers the case of nations with budgetary limits that cannot afford to follow the East Asian model, and finds alternative policies that create jobs and reduce poverty
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Rethinking the State and Development: The Importance of Palliative Development; Chapter 2 What Would Have Happened If the Government Had Done Nothing; Chapter 3 O'Connorian Models of Development: How States Literally Build Economic Growth; Chapter 4 Major Infrastructure and the Larger Economy: The Central Importance of Airports; Chapter 5 How Brazilian Vocational Education Reduces Poverty - Even If No One Wants to Hire the Trainees; Chapter 6 Government Effectiveness in the Face of Debt
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Chapter 7 Why Reducing Taxes for Employers Does Not Raise EmploymentChapter 8 How Rent and Urban Verticalization Can Reduce Employment; Chapter 9 Frontier Development as Job Creation - With Social Costs; Chapter 10 When Does Not Being Green Reduce Employment?; Chapter 11 Palliative Development and the Great Theories of Development; Chapter 12 Development Strategies in a Post-Debt World; Appendices; Data and sources; Details of statistical results; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781137001405
Additional Edition:
ISBN 128353259X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781137001429
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Employment and Development under Globalization State and Economy in Brazil
Language:
English
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