Employment And Development Under Globalization: State And Economy In Brazil (international Political Economy Series)

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. Globalization has changed the models of development that are open to most states both in the industrialized and less industrialized world. Using the unusual case of Brazilian barbers, beauticians, hotels and restaurants, Samuel Cohn lays out a model of the role of the state and development that is an alternative to more highly visible formulas associated with East Asia. By identifying a number of unjustly ignored government initiatives that substantially increase employment and significantly reduce poverty, he provides a third alternative to the development strategies being put forward by traditional and critical development scholars. The programs for achieving this are cheap, uncontroversial and can be effectively implemented even by governments with fiscal crises and weak administrative capacity. Yet the result is development that reduces social inequality, relieves poverty and insures the more equitable division of well-being Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Rethinking the State and Development: The Importance of Palliative Development....Pages 1-19 What Would Have Happened If the Government Had Done Nothing....Pages 20-32 O’Connorian Models of Development: How States Literally Build Economic Growth....Pages 33-60 Major Infrastructure and the Larger Economy: The Central Importance of Airports....Pages 61-74 How Brazilian Vocational Education Reduces Poverty — Even If No One Wants to Hire the Trainees....Pages 75-103 Government Effectiveness in the Face of Debt....Pages 104-113 Why Reducing Taxes for Employers Does Not Raise Employment....Pages 114-125 How Rent and Urban Verticalization Can Reduce Employment....Pages 126-140 Frontier Development as Job Creation — With Social Costs....Pages 141-158 When Does Not Being Green Reduce Employment?....Pages 159-164 Palliative Development and the Great Theories of Development....Pages 165-177 Development Strategies in a Post-Debt World....Pages 178-190 Back Matter....Pages 191-236 Globalization has changed the models of development that are open to most states both in the industrialized and less industrialized world. Using the unusual case of Brazilian barbers, beauticians, hotels and restaurants, Samuel Cohn lays out a model of the role of the state and development that is an alternative to more highly visible formulas associated with East Asia. By identifying a number of unjustly ignored government initiatives that substantially increase employment and significantly reduce poverty, he provides a third alternative to the development strategies being put forward by traditional and critical development scholars. The programs for achieving this are cheap, uncontroversial and can be effectively implemented even by governments with fiscal crises and weak administrative capacity. Yet the result is development that reduces social inequality, relieves poverty and insures the more equitable division of well-being. -- Publisher description "Globalization has changed the models of development that are open to most states both in the industrialized and less industrialized world. Using the unusual case of Brazilian barbers, beauticians, hotels and restaurants, Samuel Cohn lays out a model of the role of the state and development that is an alternative to more highly visible formulas associated with East Asia. By identifying a number of unjustly ignored government initiatives that substantially increase employment and significantly reduce poverty, he provides a third alternative to the development strategies being put forward by traditional and critical development scholars. The programs for achieving this are cheap, uncontroversial and can be effectively implemented even by governments with fiscal crises and weak administrative capacity. Yet the result is development that reduces social inequality, relieves poverty and insures the more equitable division of well-being"--Provided by publisher