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Welfare Designs and Peripheral Realities: The Brazilian Dilemma

In: Welfare States and the Future

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  • Dilip Loundo

    (Goa University)

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This chapter analyses the welfare policies in Brazil since the 1930s, when efforts towards state-led industrialization took place. It argues that welfare rhetoric and policies ended up serving a model of economic development where capital accumulation resulted, to a great extent and paradoxically, from incremental inequality and poverty among large contingents of the urban and rural populations. Even if social sacrifices were expected in a process of late/peripheral industrialization, there was hope that the state would have functioned as balancing broker. But far from that, the state established a bureaucratic network of social control ranging from populist/ corporatist to repressive/clientelist approaches, which propelled patrimonialism, corruption and external dependency.

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  • Dilip Loundo, 2005. "Welfare Designs and Peripheral Realities: The Brazilian Dilemma," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: B. Vivekanandan & Nimmi Kurian (ed.), Welfare States and the Future, chapter 16, pages 272-296, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-55491-7_16
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230554917_16
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