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Business-State Relations in Brazil - Challenges of the Port Reform Lobby (Hardcover)
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Business-State Relations in Brazil - Challenges of the Port Reform Lobby (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics
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In recent years, the spotlight of international attention on Brazil
has often been in the area of logistics infrastructure-for example,
on its capacity to deal with the high demand expected during the
World Cup and the Olympics. However, neither competitiveness nor
infrastructure concerns are new for Brazil. In the 1990s, Brazilian
policy-makers adopted a series of liberalizing economic reforms
that exposed the poor condition of logistics infrastructure and
inadequate investment in Brazilian ports, roads, railways and
airports. Over twenty years later, the implications of those
reforms still colour Brazil's prospects for development. Mahrukh
Doctor's book evaluates the political economy of reform in Brazil
and the difficulty of implementing institutional modernization in
the context of opposition from vested interests originating in the
state and civil society. It focuses specifically on the Port
Modernization Law, which aimed to augment the country's
competitiveness by creating efficient and low cost ports. Based on
primary research carried out over a period of twenty years using
original qualitative data, Doctor's analysis focuses on the
difficulties in implementing this law and how those difficulties
are symptomatic of the wider issues associated with lack of
sufficient investment in infrastructure in Brazil. Using the case
of the business lobby for port reform, the book examines the
evolving nature of business-state relations and the process of
institutional change in Brazil. Doctor particularly examines the
building of consensus for reform and policy formulation in the port
sector and the challenges of reform implementation and
institutional modernisation. The analysis provides extensive
insights and lessons related to the prospects for boosting
competitiveness of Brazilian ports. The book concludes by
suggesting a likely path for the evolution of corporatist
institutions as well as the provision of adequate logistics
infrastructure to support business success in Brazil. A unique work
on the subject of port reform in Latin America that uses a hybrid
analytical framework to understand reform in Brazil, this book is
pertinent for a variety of subjects from Latin American Studies to
political economy to economic-policy making.
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