The Political Economy Of Brazilian Oil

Author : Laura Randall
Publisher : Praeger Publishers
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173000529983

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The Political Economy of Brazilian Oil by Laura Randall Pdf

This is the first book in English about Brazil's largest firm, Petroleo Brasileiro, S.A., PETROBRAS, the state-owned monopoly oil firm. The work provides a history and analysis of PETROBRAS' organization, administration, operations, and efficiency. It analyzes its labor relations; the development of its suppliers of capital goods and research; and its impact on the economy and environment in Brazil. The study compares and contrasts PETROBRAS to the state-owned oil firms of Mexico and Venezuela, including current information regarding their organization. And it examines the trend toward reorganization and privatization as it has affected PETROBRAS and similar state-owned monopolies. This study completes Laura Randall's examination of the oil producers of Latin America, begun with The Political Economy of Venezuelan Oil and followed by The Political Economy of Mexican Oil. It will be of interest to scholars and industry experts in energy economics and Latin American studies.

Author : Peter Seaborn Smith
Publisher : Macmillan of Canada : Maclean-Hunter Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCAL:B4438120

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Oil and Politics in Modern Brazil by Peter Seaborn Smith Pdf

Author : P. Arestis,A. Saad-Filho
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230390102

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Political Economy of Brazil by P. Arestis,A. Saad-Filho Pdf

This book assesses the performance of the first Lula government (2002-06) from different perspectives including economics, politics, history and social policy. While the focus is on Brazil, it also refers to the experiences of similar countries both for comparative purposes and for evidence of the success or otherwise of this 'new' era for Brazil.

Author : Laura Randall
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1989-12-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780275933722

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The Political Economy of Mexican Oil by Laura Randall Pdf

This work follows upon the author's previous volume, The Political Economy of Venezuelan Oil, and investigates the general workings of the Mexican oil industry in relationship to the economics and politics of Mexico. Specifically the author examines Mexico's state-run oil concern, PEMEX, and the costs and benefits of Mexican oil policy--for the nation as a whole and for special groups. Using in-depth interviews and extensive data from PEMEX and other sources, Randall explores issues such as PEMEX's relationships with workers and the oil union, with suppliers of capital goods and services, with the regions in which oil is produced, and with specific groups of oil consumers. Given the critical and negative publicity PEMEX has received over its lifetime, Randall also seeks to answer questions regarding the extent of corruption, overstaffing, and lax management within PEMEX, which she finds to be less than is often alleged. Students of energy and development economics will find Randall's study an important contribution to the literature of Latin American economic policy. In addition to examining the internal workings of PEMEX, Randall describes and analyzes measures taken to correct earlier abuses and to increase efficiency. She reveals the intricate relationships among Mexican oil production, OPEC, the United States, and other nations, and explores the contradictory aspects of Mexican economic and oil policies that inhibit the ability of the oil industry to reach official goals. Throughout, Randall traces the transformation of PEMEX from a nationalized industry that mainly produced crude oil for export to one that has expanded to include refined products and petrochemicals. As a result of this expansion, Randall demonstrates, PEMEX has had a major impact both on the market for labor and capital goods and on the regions in which it operates. Her conclusions regarding the current and future prospects for PEMEX have important implications for the study of economic and energy development throughout the Third World.

Author : Michael Barzelay
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520322660

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The Politicized Market Economy by Michael Barzelay Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.

Author : Laura Randall
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1987-11-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173017251509

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The Political Economy of Venezuelan Oil by Laura Randall Pdf

The Political Economy of Venezuelan Oil describes the historic role of multinationals in establishing the oil industry there and the resulting coordination of an integrated, nationalized industry. Randall posits that the nationalization of the Venezuelan oil industry was strikingly different from that in Brazil and Mexico. Besides giving a detailed description of the structure and management of this industry, she also provides a history of labor conditions and an analysis of the impact of the oil industry on Venezuela's overall economy.

Author : David G. Victor,Thomas C. Heller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139460798

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The Political Economy of Power Sector Reform by David G. Victor,Thomas C. Heller Pdf

Over the last fifteen years the world's largest developing countries have initiated market reform in their electric power sectors from generation to distribution. This book evaluates the experiences of five of those countries - Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa - as they have shifted from state-dominated systems to schemes allowing for a larger private sector role. As well as having the largest power systems in their regions and among the most rapidly rising consumption of electricity in the world, these countries are the locus of massive financial investment and the effects of their power systems are increasingly felt in world fuel markets. This accessible volume explains the origins of these reform efforts and offers a theory as to why - despite diverse backgrounds - reform efforts in all five countries have stalled in similar ways. The authors also offer practical advice to improve reform policies.

Author : Ben Ross Schneider
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190462918

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New Order and Progress by Ben Ross Schneider Pdf

Ben Ross Schneider's volume, New Order and Progress takes a thorough look at the political economy of Brazil. The distinctive perspective of the 11 chapters is historical, comparative, and theoretical. Collectively, the chapters offer sobering insight into why Brazil has not been the rising economic star of the BRIC that many predicted it would be, but also documents the gains that Brazil has made toward greater equality and stability. The book is grouped into four parts covering Brazil's development strategy, governance, social change, and political representation. The authors -18 leading experts from Brazil and the United States - analyze core issues in Brazil's evolving political economy, including falling inequality, the new middle class, equalizing federalism, the politicization of the federal bureaucracy, resurgent state capitalism, labor market discrimination, survival of political dynasties, the expansion of suffrage, oil and the resource curse, exchange rates and capital controls, protest movements, and the frayed social contract.

Author : Marcelo de Paiva Abreu
Publisher : BID-INTAL
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Brazil
ISBN : 9789507381805

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Trade liberalization and the political economy of protection in Brazil since 1987 (Working Paper SITI = Documento de Trabajo IECI n. 8b) by Marcelo de Paiva Abreu Pdf

Author : Maria Regina Soares de Lima
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Brazil
ISBN : 8576314401

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The Political Economy of Brazilian Foreign Policy by Maria Regina Soares de Lima Pdf

Author : L. Casanova,J. Kassum
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137352361

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The Political Economy of an Emerging Global Power by L. Casanova,J. Kassum Pdf

Is Brazil ready to take its place among the world's leading powers? The authors examine Brazil's hard power and soft power resources, assessing the challenges the country will need to overcome in order to build its own "Brazilian dream" and project itself on the international stage.

Author : Angus Maddison
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113697655

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Brazil and Mexico by Angus Maddison Pdf

Part of a series sponsored by the World Bank, this volume focuses on the political history of Brazil and Mexico, providing a concise account of the policies and outcomes relating to growth and distributional issues.

Author : Lael Brainard,Leonardo Martinez-Diaz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815703655

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Brazil as an Economic Superpower? by Lael Brainard,Leonardo Martinez-Diaz Pdf

In Brazil, the confluence of strong global demand for the country's major products, global successes for its major corporations, and steady results from its economic policies is building confidence and even reviving dreams of grandeza—the greatness that has proven elusive in the past. Even as the current economic crisis tempers expectations of the future, the trends identified in this book suggest that Brazil will continue its path toward becoming a leading economic power in the future. Once seen as an economic backwater, Brazil now occupies key niches in energy, agriculture, service industries, and even high technology. Yet Latin America's largest nation still struggles with endemic inequality issues and deep-seated ambivalence toward global economic integration. Scholars and policy practitioners from Brazil, the United States, and Europe recently gathered to investigate the present state and likely future of the Brazilian economy. This important volume is the timely result. In Brazil as an Economic Superpower? international authorities focus on five key topics: agribusiness, energy, trade, social investment, and multinational corporations. Their analyses and expertise provide not only a unique and authoritative picture of the Brazilian economy but also a useful lens through which to view the changing global economy as a whole.

Author : Matthew M. Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108842280

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Decadent Developmentalism by Matthew M. Taylor Pdf

Complementarities between political and economic institutions have kept Brazil in a low-level economic equilibrium since 1985.

Author : Pedro Chadarevian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Brazil
ISBN : 1138050245

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The Political Economy of Lula's Brazil by Pedro Chadarevian Pdf

The early 21st Century saw a boom in Brazil's economy. Commodities had a large part to play, including bananas, sugar and soybeans, but also processed food, gasoline and medium sized airplanes. This book argues it is the adoption of leftist economic policies and changes made by Lula's government which are key to explaining recent Brazilian growth.