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Policy analysis in Brazil is the first book to paint a comprehensive panorama of policy analysis activities in Brazil. It brings together 18 studies by leading Brazilian social scientists on policy analysis as a widespread activity and offers key insights into the practice of this field.

The main goal of this study is to investigate the role of the urban bias in the Brazilian development on the educational attainment process. Theories of educational inequality and socioeconomic development and modernization are considered to construct the hypotheses. The study is based on a nation-wide probability sample survey (the 1988 PNAD). OLS regression models are estimated to assess the hypotheses, and a cohort strategy is used to investigate trends in the patterns of determinants of the educational attainment process in Brazil. Among the main causal factors analyzed here, we center our investigation on the importance of the difference of having an urban or a rural origin on the educational attainment of individuals. The process of socioeconomic development in most developing countries has been marked by a very strong urban bias. As we show here, this urban bias has a very significant effect (net of many other causal variables) on the educational attainment process in Brazil.

Der UN-Human Development Report 1990 stellt fest, Brasilien habe seine Chancen für eine menschliche Entwicklung verpasst. Diese Einschätzung geht auf die hohe Analphabetismusrate (18,7%) und die niedrige Lebenserwartung (65 Jahre) zurück. Trifft die Diagnose zu? Wie ist dieser Sachverhalt zu erklären? - In diesem Artikel wird die Bildungskrise als Ergebnis der Politik der Militärregierung (1964-1984) und der darauf folgenden Redemokratisierung (1985-1990) gedeutet. Die Bildungspolitik der letzten 30 Jahre wird anhand von drei Themenschwerpunkten (Finanzierung des Bildungswesens, öffentliche und private Schulen und Hochschulen sowie Bildungsqualität) untersucht. Für den Zeitraum von 1990-2000 werden Chancen einer Verbesserung der "menschlichen Entwicklung" (im Bildungsbereich) gesehen. Dies ist jedoch noch keine Garantie dafür, dass Brasilien im Jahre 2000 zu den reichen Industrienationen zählen wird. (DIPF/Orig.) ; According to the UN-Human Development Report 1990 Brazil is a country which has missed its opportunities for a human development, taking into account its high illiteracy rate (18,7%) and its low life expectation (65 years). Is this diagnosis correct? How can the problem be explained? This article makes the attempt to explain the educational crisis as a result of the military regime's policy (1964-1984) and further redemocratization efforts (1985-1990). The educational policy in the last 30 years as analysed by foccusing three main aspects (economic resources, relationship between private and public schools and quality of education). There are good possibilities to promote "human development" (especially education) in the next ten years but this does not necessarily mean that Brazil will have a chance to join the rieh industriahzed countries until the year 2000. (DIPF/Orig.)

Policy analysis in Brazil is the first book to paint a comprehensive panorama of policy analysis activities in Brazil. It brings together 18 studies by leading Brazilian social scientists on policy analysis as a widespread activity and offers key insights into the practice of this field

This Handbook is for policy researchers, analysts, academics and graduate students interested in educational policy, educational reform, educational governance and leadership, teacher quality, literacy, and workplace learning. This Handbook is the only one of its kind. It has over fifty chapters written by nearly ninety leading researchers from a number of countries and presents contemporary and emergent trends in educational policy research. It captures many of the current dominant educational policy foci, situating current understandings historically, in terms of both how they are conceptualized and in terms of past policy practice. The chapters are empirically grounded, providing illustrations of the conceptual implications contained within them as well as allowing for comparisons across them. The self-reflexivity within chapters with respect to jurisdictional particularities and contrasts allows readers to consider not only a range of approaches to policy analysis but also the ways in which policies and policy ideas play out in different times and places. Sections cover the contemporary strategic emphasis on large-scale reform, substantive emphases at several levels – on leadership and governance, improving teacher quality and conceptualizing learning in various domains around the notion of literacies and concluding, finally, with a contrasting topic, workplace learning, which has had less policy attention and thus allows readers to consider both the advantages and disadvantages of learning and teaching under the bright gaze of policy.

Gonçalves, Carlos Eduardo Soares: Monetary policy independence and floating exchange rates: what does the Brazilian evidence tell us? - S. 29-35. Palley, Thomas: Escaping the dept constraint on growth: a suggested monetary policy for Brazil. - S. 36-49 Maria Rita Loureiro e Fernando Luiz Abrucio: Política e reformas fiscais no Brasil recente. - S. 50-72

Policy analysis in Brazil is part of the International Library of Policy Analysis and is the first book to paint a comprehensive panorama of policy analysis activities in Brazil. Highlighting the unique features of the Brazilian example, it brings together 18 studies by leading Brazilian social scientists on policy analysis as a widespread activity pursued in a variety of policy fields and through different methods by governmental and non-governmental institutions and actors. It shows how policy analysis emerged as part of Brazilian state-building from the 1930s onwards. With the democratisation process of the late 1980s, policy analysis began to include innovative elements of social participation in public management. This unique book offers key insights into the practice of this field and is indispensable reading for scholars, policy makers and students of the social sciences interested in learning how policy analysis developed and functions in Brazil