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The recent debate on alternative growth models for Brazil has revealed an almost unanimous assessment regarding the end of the validity of the domestic consumption-led model

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  • Celia Lessa Kerstenetzky

    (Centro de Estudos sobre Desigualdade e Desenvolvimento, Universidade Federal Fluminense – CE DEUFF, Niterói, RJ – Brasil.)

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The recent debate on alternative growth models for Brazil has revealed an almost unanimous assessment regarding the end of the validity of the domestic consumption-led model. In this article, I propose to examine the broader social meaning of this model as well as the empirical soundness of supposed tradeoffs, e.g. between consumption and investment and, in particular, public investment and consumption, and suggest that the assessment unit should include the manifold consumption gaps, e.g. necessary, discretionary and public, that persist in the Brazilian society. The gaps suggest that there still is space for redistribution and expansion of social public goods provision. Exploring the potential of public social services for delivering growth in combination with social equilibrium and social cohesion and sustainability emerges from the analysis as a bet yet to be made. JEL Classification: H50; I38.

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  • Celia Lessa Kerstenetzky, 2016. "The recent debate on alternative growth models for Brazil has revealed an almost unanimous assessment regarding the end of the validity of the domestic consumption-led model," Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, Center of Political Economy, vol. 36(1), pages 29-45, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:ekm:repojs:v:36:y:2016:i:1:id:95161
    DOI: 10.1590/0101-31572016v36n01a03
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    • H50 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - General
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs

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