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Regional Inequalities in Brazil during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century

In: Disparities in Economic Development since the Industrial Revolution

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  • Mircea Buescu

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1. There seems to be no doubt that there are economic inequalities which are caused by the development process itself. Francois Perroux has said that ‘growth is disequilibrium’.1 At the national level, disparity in development is evidenced by the presence of poles of growth that stand apart from back-ward regions and give rise to actual dualism within the economy,2 as Jacques Lambert has shown in the case of Brazil.3 The cumulative mechanism of development — Gunnar Myrdal’s ‘circular causality’4 — merely sharpens such disparities. These disparities are not only inevitable: certain economists, such as Alberto Hirschman, regard them as a necessary feature of sound economic development strategy.5

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  • Mircea Buescu, 1981. "Regional Inequalities in Brazil during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Paul Bairoch & Maurice Lévy-Leboyer (ed.), Disparities in Economic Development since the Industrial Revolution, chapter 31, pages 349-358, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-04707-9_31
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-04707-9_31
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