Includes bibliographical references and index.

Political economy and development -- the political economy of Brazil -- Moving beyond the Washington consensus: pro-poor macroeconomic policies -- Addressing Growth, Poverty and Inequality: From the Washington Consensus to Inclusive Growth -- The ?Rise of the South? and the troubles of global convergence -- The rise and fall of structuralism and dependency theory -- The political economy of neoliberalism in Latin America -- The seeds of disaster: socialism, agrarian transition and civil war in Mozambique -- The costs of neomonetarism and the Brazilian economy in the 1990s -- Inflation and stabilisation in Brazil -- Neoliberalism in Lula's Brazil: strategic choice, economic inevitability or schizophrenia? -- Neodevelopmentalism and economic policy-making under Dilma Rousseff -- Mass protests in Brazil: the events of june-july 2013 -- Development strategies and social change in Brazil -- Social policy for neoliberalism: The Bolsa Familia Programme -- The travails of the PT and Rise of the ?New-Right? in Brazil -- State and power in Brazil -- Brazilian democracy confronts authoritarian neoliberalism -- Varieties of neoliberalism in Brazil, 2003-2020.

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