The takeover of social policy by financialization : the Brazilian paradox /: the Brazilian paradox. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Lena Lavinas.
• Authors: Lavinas, Lena
• Contents: Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures ; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction; Twenty-First Century Developmentalism; The Place of Social Policy Within the Social-ƯDevelopmentalist Strategy; Featuring Financialization; How Financialization Strikes a Blow to Social Policy in Brazil; The Structure of the Book; Notes; Chapter 2: Social Developmentalism as a Growth Model in Times of Financialization; Brazil 2015: Change of Trajectory; The Boom Years (2003-2014): Making Up for Losses with Some Innovations in the Social Realm; The Credit Market Boom Throughout the 2000s. Featuring Financialization in BrazilDevelopmentalisms or "Covenants for Growth"138; Notes; Annex 1; Structural Break Test; Annex 2; Annex 3; Chapter 3: Financial Inclusion in the New Covenant for Growth; Financial Inclusion, Fueling the Emergence of the "New Middle Classes"; The Brazilian Context: Financial Inclusion and Consumption Shaping the "New Middle Class"; Consumer Credit: Spearheading the Financialization of Social Policy; Notes; Annex; Summary of Financial Market Income Tax; Chapter 4: Connections Between the Social Protection System, Taxation, and Financialization. The Financing of Social PolicySocial Insurance: The Strengthening of Public Regimes Despite Tax Breaks, the Unbinding of Revenues, and Incentives to the Complementary Fully Funded Regime; Unemployment Insurance: Boosting Workforce Turnover, Given Increased Flexibility on the Job Market; Social Assistance: Safety Nets on Varying Scales and in a Variety of Forms; Healthcare: A Universal Right Threatened by Underfinancing and the Logic of Privatization; The Dream of a College Degree, Now on the Road to Financialization; Wrapping Up; Notes; Annex; Changes to the Legislation of FIES. Chapter 5: Lingering Brazilian ParadoxesThe Decline of Developmentalism Under the Aegis of Financialization?; Brazil 2016: Absent Progressive Reforms, a Political Sea Change Inaugurates Deeper and More Sweeping Neoliberal Policy Reforms; Notes; References; Index.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxi, 219 pages)
• Subjects: 338.9; Finance; Economic development -- Brazil; Social policy; Finance, Public; Latin America—Economic conditions; Development economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General; Economic development; Finance; Social policy; Business & Economics -- Economics -- General; Political Science -- Public Policy -- Social Policy; Business & Economics -- Development -- General; Economics; Political economy; Development economics & emerging economies; Business & Economics -- Public Finance; Public finance; Finance; Public Finance; Latin American and Caribbean Economics; Social Policy; Development Economics; Brazil; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137491077; 1137491078
• Related ISBNs: 9781137491060; 113749106X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 7, 2017).
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