Roots of Brazilian relative economic backwardness. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alexandre Rands Barros.
• Authors: Barros, Alexandre Rands
• Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Historical Origins of Brazil’s Relative Backwardness; 3. A Simple Model of World Equilibrium with International Trade and No Restriction on Factor Mobility; 4. Some Empirical Evidence on the Sources of Brazil’s Current Relative Backwardness; 5. Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital and its Role on Physical Capital Accumulation; 6. Migration Profile and Human Capital Building in Brazil and the United States in the 19th Century; 7. Genesis of Brazilian Human Capital: from Colony to the 19th Century; 8. Relatively Declining in the 19th Century; 9. Stabilization of Relative Backwardness; 10. Alternative Explanations for Brazil’s Relative Backwardness; 11. The Fundamental Cause of the Emergence of Relative Backwardness; 12. Social Conflict as the Source of Brazil’s Relative Backwardness; 13. Social Conflicts and Human Capital Accumulation in the Period of Search for National Identity; 14. Conclusions
• Publisher Details: Amsterdam : Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 338.981; Economic development -- Brazil; Brazil -- Economic conditions -- 1985-
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780128097571
• Related ISBNs: 9780128097564
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