Brazil: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)

by Riordan Roett

Book Overview

Brazil is one of the most important but puzzling countries in the world. A nation of 200 million people, it has vast natural resource reserves, rich cultural traditions, a middle class undergoing explosive growth, and social welfare policies that are models for much of the world ('la bolsa familia, ' which provides a guaranteed income to poor families). And, after decades of authoritarian rule, it is a stable democracy. Yet it is beset by problems...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190224533
• ISBN13: 9780190224530
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.2"