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Lula’s Social Policies: New Wine in Old Bottles?

In: Political Economy of Brazil

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  • Alcino Ferreira Câmara Neto

    (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)

  • Matías Vernengo

    (University of Utah)

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It has become commonplace in the debates about economic and social policies in Brazil in the Washington Consensus era, that is, during the administrations of Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, to emphasize that social indicators (poverty, life expectancy, literacy rates, infant mortality, fertility rates, etc.) have shown marked improvement. However, the main complaint is that inequality levels have remained high, and that social policies are unable to eliminate inequality without being complemented by more efficient use of public money, in particular, better targeting to the poor. The superficial conclusion is that there is something right about social policies from the 1990s onwards, since after the 1988 Constitution there has been a certain amount of social progress (Schwartzman, 2000; Almeida, 2004; Barros and Carvalho, 2004).

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  • Alcino Ferreira Câmara Neto & Matías Vernengo, 2007. "Lula’s Social Policies: New Wine in Old Bottles?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Philip Arestis & Alfredo Saad-Filho (ed.), Political Economy of Brazil, chapter 6, pages 73-93, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-39010-2_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230390102_6
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    1. Matias Vernengo, 2011. "The Brazilian Economy after Lula: What to Expect?," CESifo Forum, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 12(1), pages 17-22, March.

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    Keywords

    Interest Rate; Minimum Wage; Social Exclusion; Social Indicator; Cash Transfer;
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    JEL classification:

    • E25 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Aggregate Factor Income Distribution
    • H50 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - General
    • O54 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Latin America; Caribbean

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