Received:
2017-09-14 | Accepted:
2018-01-15 | Published:
2018-03-30
Title
The Brazilian Amazon: a resource curse or renewed colonialism?
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to highlight the effect of the endowment of resources on development through the analysis of the impact of national strategy, both at a regional and local level. The research focuses on the Legal Amazon, through the georeferenced analysis of socio-economic data from the last three censuses (1991, 2000 and 2010), in order to demonstrate how the Brazilian national energy strategy is contributing to the perpetuation of the phenomenon of the endowment trap at a regional level. Despite boosting the national growth, the concentration of sector-based projects in resource-abundant areas is unable to eradicate inequalities, which in turn perpetuates the path dependence.
Keywords
Brazil, Legal Amazon, Dependency, Inequality, Human Development
JEL classifications
O38
, O44
, O54
URI
http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/158
DOI
HAL
Pages
438-451
Funding
This research was supported by the project AguaSociaL an FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES - Marie Curie Action "International Research Staff Exchange Scheme", Grant Agreement Number 612633
This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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