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Brazil despite its economic success remains one of the inequality champions
Brazil might be the leading economy in Latin America and has had a significant performance in reducing poverty in recent years, but it still remains among the countries with he highest inequality in the region together with Guatemala, Honduras and Colombia, points out the UN-Habitar report. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThat photo is really shocking. Lets build a big wall and pretend the poor people don't exist!
Aug 22nd, 2012 - 07:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0Do Brazil seriously think they should be a member of the UN security council, when most of their people live like that?
So giving 12 USD a month to a brazilian family mean rescuing them out of poverty? Lula and PT´s created propaganda out of a social program. Mexico has Oportunidades since 2002, a similar program, the first of its kind in the world, that gives cash transfers to poor people, but none has ever claimed that the program rescuing them out of poverty. Families earning 50 USD a month, and getting a 12 or 24 USD cash transfer from the state are still poor, and dependant from the state.
Aug 22nd, 2012 - 11:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0Economic stability, low inflation, low interest rates, a stable currency, access to education, labor flexibility, free trade and antimonopoly regulations is what lifts people out of poverty, no cash transfer will do that, they only create clientelism, corruption and dependency.
Steve
Aug 22nd, 2012 - 02:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It is shocking, but if you lived there you would probably want to be on the right side of the wall. In developing countries you often find 3rd world and 1st world living along side each other. It is not an easy process and there is no quick fix.
JAdeM: I fully agree with you. This is basically the Chilean approach. You also need strong institutions otherwise you are building on sand.
Condorito,
Aug 22nd, 2012 - 03:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Populist demagogues always resort to cheap schemes like throwing free money to the people, since roman times, it has been the preferred method for gaining quick popularity.
Politicians committed to their people for real prefer the hard medicine, the policies that do not bring applause and popularity, but result in more prosperity for their people in the long term.
Dont speak about dont know! This picture from 2003!!!! Age before LULA! Very much things changed in Brazil.....yours schools are weaks!
Aug 22nd, 2012 - 04:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://en.mercopress.com/2012/08/22/brazil-despite-its-economic-success-remains-one-of-the-inequality-champions#comment155967: It is precisely because most people in Brazil “live like that” that Brazil should be on the Security Council! After all the UN is not a club of rich counties, is it?
Aug 22nd, 2012 - 04:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In any case things are changing fast in Brazil. The UN needs to get ahead of the curve and let it on now. If not it will join the SC later, possibly by kicking those ex first world countries, e.g. the UK, off.
It probably has not dawned on you yet but the PRC is on the SC and some of the living arrangements of its citizens is much worse than those of Brazil.
From Hepatia.....i dont like UN! South América dont need UN! Live yours lifes and leave we in peace! Please!
Aug 22nd, 2012 - 04:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Dont speak about dont know! This picture from 2003!!!! Age before LULA! Very much things changed in Brazil.....yours schools are weaks!”
Aug 22nd, 2012 - 05:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That picture is older. Nevermind the fact what i've seen myself as tourist that the area has changed, because it's so much fun for the UN with it's old data and pictures.
By the way, if we're not careful here in the so called west, what you see in that picture is slowly happening here in front of our eyes, but ach, it's so much cooler to look abroad than inside.
The UN is a globalist crackhouse that needs to be abolished..fast.
Clearly the boom has done more to combat poverty than inequality. At least Lula's boom was a real boom, unlike the Balair/Brown banking bubble, and people were lifted out of poverty. But more still needs to be done on inequality
Aug 22nd, 2012 - 10:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Interestingly, Argentina is not in the map of inequality in Latin America, which speaks volumes about how resilient argentinian people are in spite of one after another economic crisis, the argentinian people hold on to their standards. I take my hat off.
Aug 22nd, 2012 - 11:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://en.mercopress.com/2012/08/22/brazil-despite-its-economic-success-remains-one-of-the-inequality-champions#comment156103: South America may not need the UN but the UN needs South America! More specifically, the world needs South America.
Aug 23rd, 2012 - 04:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0With the inevitable decline of the US and the rise of the Pacific South America is going to take a more central role in the coming century.
Enormously wealthy 'elites', total corruption and massive inequalities characterise all the BRICS nations: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
Aug 24th, 2012 - 07:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://en.mercopress.com/2012/08/22/brazil-despite-its-economic-success-remains-one-of-the-inequality-champions#comment156843: As you point out the BRICS have serious internal problems. However, of those countries, Brazil has done the most to address the situation.
Aug 24th, 2012 - 08:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0#13 I agree with that
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