TY - JOUR
T1 - Economic orthodoxy versus social development? The dilemmas facing Brazil's labour government
AU - Amann, Edmund
AU - Baer, Werner
N1 - Funding Information:
*Edmund Amann, Department of Economics, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK and REAL, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Werner Baer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We would like to thank Leonard A. Abbey, Jorge Paulo Lemann, Peri Silva and two anonymous referees for valuable help and comments. Edmund Amann would like to acknowledge the financial support of the Leverhulme Trust.
PY - 2006/6
Y1 - 2006/6
N2 - It has often been suggested that the trade-off between equity and efficiency can be overcome by achieving both goals sequentially. This article shows how the government of President Lula has tried to follow this rule, by first emphasizing economic orthodoxy, to be followed by measures to achieve more socio-economic equity. With President Lula's administration in the second half of its mandate, our analysis suggests that such a sequence may be difficult to achieve.
AB - It has often been suggested that the trade-off between equity and efficiency can be overcome by achieving both goals sequentially. This article shows how the government of President Lula has tried to follow this rule, by first emphasizing economic orthodoxy, to be followed by measures to achieve more socio-economic equity. With President Lula's administration in the second half of its mandate, our analysis suggests that such a sequence may be difficult to achieve.
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U2 - 10.1080/13600810600705148
DO - 10.1080/13600810600705148
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33745233492
VL - 34
SP - 219
EP - 241
JO - Oxford Development Studies
JF - Oxford Development Studies
SN - 1360-0818
IS - 2
ER -