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The Brazilian Developmental Welfare State: Rise, Decline and Perspectives

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In line with the analytical proposals underpinning this book, this chapter examines the Brazilian social policy system in order to identify the challenges and possibilities of a new pattern of social and economic development. The main objective has been to review the historic process of construction and development of the twentieth-century Brazilian Development Welfare State. This review has emphasized the institutional and political legacies that may, in the future, either favour or limit the achievement of a new social contract, and the creation of a new democratic, and inclusive, model of development — one in which social protection interacts with the economic sphere, fostering economic growth, as well as greater social equality among its citizens.

Despite huge obstacles we were making progress, but when those great years of prosperity arrived and we allowed ourselves to be blinded by the centres, the search for our own path was broken off.

(Raúl Prebisch, UNCTAD Conference, 1982)

We do not ignore that the historical time accelerates and counts against us. The question is to know if we have a future as a nation that matters in the construction of the human future. Or if will prevail the forces that fight in order to interrupt our historic process of Nation and State building.

(Celso Furtado, 1992)

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Draibe, S.M. (2007). The Brazilian Developmental Welfare State: Rise, Decline and Perspectives. In: Riesco, M. (eds) Latin America. Social Policy in a Development Context. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230625259_7

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