"Inside a Champion"

<p><strong>Inside a Champion<br />An Analysis of the Brazilian Development Model <br /></strong>       <br />Editor     Heinrich Böll Foundation<br />Place of publication: Berlin<br />Date of publication: June 2012<br />Pages: 228<br />ISBN 978-85-62669-07-1<br />Service charge:    Free of charge<br />...<a href="http://www.boell.de/publications/publications-brazil-inside-a-champion-economy-ecology-14760.html">more & free download</a> ...</p><p>The international community likes to see Brazil as a socially oriented, economically successful state that is sensitive to environmental and climate-friendly issues and has even managed to get the endemic destruction of the Amazon rainforests under control – a great power on its way to the top; a champion. It was this perception that led us to bring out a publication about the Brazilian development model. Because, in Brazilian civil society, another perception of its own state and the politics it pursues prevails. From the perspective of social and ecological justice, social movements and NGOs recognize a development paradigm that is all too similar to what came before and that, at the same time, has revived several large-scale projects from the times of the military dictatorship. This publication takes a closer look at this discrepancy between how Brazil is perceived by those outside of and within its borders.<br />...<a href="http://www.boell.de/publications/publications-brazil-inside-a-champion-economy-ecology-14760.html">more & free download</a> ... <br /></p>