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Not TINA (There Is No Alternative) but TAPAS: THERE ARE PLENTY OF ALTERNATIVES
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http://democracynow.org - As protests continue in Brazil over the Legislature's vote to suspend President Dilma Rousseff and put her on trial, Noam Chomsky ...
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The 1964 Brazilian coup d'état (Portuguese: Golpe de estado no Brasil em 1964 or, more colloquially, Portuguese: Golpe de 64), names a series of events that ...
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In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they want is to re-start ...
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President Rousseff is fighting for her political survival, as her approval rating falls and the national oil company she once oversaw reels from a corruption scandal.
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Protests throughout the country are calling for Dilma Rousseff to resign after an embarrassing bribery scandal at the national oil company that will not go away.
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Across Latin America, business leaders are moving with the changing times. Will Brazil join them?
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Across the world, people migrate to more developed places in search of better employment. They seek to improve upon the quality of life that they lead in their small towns and cities. Brazil is no different; everyday people move to bigger cities in search of better work prospects.
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What are the effects of Brazilian participatory budgeting? Most studies answer this question using selected case studies. This paper proposes an empirical analysis of the political and fiscal effects of participatory budgeting. Focusing on all the cities that have a population greater than 50000 inhabitants between the years 1989 and 2008 it extends significantly the scope and understanding of previous empirical work. To the contrary of previous anecdotal evidence the results show that participatory budgeting does not alter the composition of public spending and public revenues. However participatory budgeting significantly increases (~9%) the probability of reelection of the party of the mayor. This effect is heightened when focusing on the sample of cities with more than 100000 inhabitants. Most interestingly for smaller cities the positive effect of adopting for the first time PB on the reelection of the mayor is mediated by the victory of the Workers’ Party. When the Workers’ Party doesn’t control the city the effect disappears. For the larger cities we observe the opposite result.
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What started as a small demonstration against an increase of 20 cents (barely 9 pence) in the price of public transport fares in Sao Paulo became a national mass movement which mobilised more than a million people in 80 cities, after having forced the mayor of the city Haddad and the regional governor Alckmin to retreat on June 19.
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Yes, but just barely. All 12 stadiums Brazil built or rebuilt for the Cup have been approved for game play, but half missed completion deadlines, and several are still short on seats and other amenities. In Natal, where the U.S. plays Ghana in its June 16 tournament opener, workers have hung colorful canvas tarps depicting beach scenes over unfinished access ramps. Getting to the games could be a huge challenge, as many major transportation projects, including a promised high-speed rail line between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, have been delayed or abandoned. Labor strife, corruption, and construction accidents — eight workers died while building World Cup stadiums — have driven the cost of hosting the event from an original estimate of less than $1 billion to more than $11.5 billion. From start to finish, the frantic effort to prepare for the Cup has laid bare deep economic and social ills that have plagued Brazil for decades. "The fiascoes are multiplying," says Gil Castello Branco of the Brazilian economic watchdog group Contas Abertas. "Immense resources have been wasted on extravagant projects when our public schools are still a mess and raw sewage is still in our streets."
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SAO PAULO — Police clashed with striking subway workers in Sao Paulo on Friday as traffic chaos gripped the Brazilian mega-city less than a week before it hosts the World Cup’s opening game.
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Video on participatory budgeting in Brazil study by Boise State professors Brian Wampler and Mike Touchton.
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As the FIFA World Cup approaches, the streets of Brazil are heating up with strikes and demonstrations, and there are worries that the social unrest could escalate into a wave of protests similar to the ones that shook the country in June 2013.
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As thousands took to the streets this weekend to protest the civil and military dictatorship – which left a legacy of some of the most sadistic and brutal repression against political prisoners seen in Latin America – the military police have unleashed a new war on the poor of Brazil, and the State is preparing to enforce new “anti-terrorism” laws which raise legitimate fears that they will bring back the practices of the fascist dictatorship. (Note: On March 22nd, Brazilian fascists called for protests under the slogan “march for family.” They were a failure, much like the white man march in North America. In some places, groups of six or less people participated.)
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Latest showing of sour national mood towards tournament in country racked by strikes, crime and anger at wealth disparities
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On a recent afternoon in Boa Vista, a lower-middle-class neighborhood of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Noranei Oliveira Miranda waited patiently on a small couch for the local community health workers to arrive.
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New research on "participatory institutions" shows how effective they can be.
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Thousands of homeless families have occupied an area of land in Brazil's biggest city, Sao Paulo.
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Brazilian security forces backed by armoured vehicles and helicopters occupy shanty towns in Rio de Janeiro as part of a drive against drug gangs.
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Nearly 1,500 Indigenous Peoples from across Brazil on Wednesday occupied a central road in the federal capital Brasília known as the Esplanade of Ministrie (RT @JeffCorntassel: 1500 #Indigenous Ppls occupy Brazil's Esplanade of Ministries
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Among developing countries, Brazil is increasingly seen as a model for social development. Its achievements over the past two decades are impressive. The share of the population living in extreme poverty fell from 16.4 percent in 1995 to 4.7 percent in 2009. Inequality as measured by the Gini coefficient fell more than 10 percent in the same period, to 0.53, where 0 represents perfect equality of income distribution and 1.0 perfect inequality. Growth has been an important driver for these trends, particularly because over the past decade Brazil’s growth has been distinctly pro-poor: Personal income among the poorest 10 percent of the population has grown more than twice as fast as that of the wealthiest 10 percent. It is not surprising that low- and middle-income countries look to Brazil for inspiration.
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Curated by jean lievens
Economist, specialized in political economy and peer-to-peer dynamics; core member of the P2P Foundation
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