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Social Security Policy and the Working Class in Twentieth-Century Brazil
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
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A crucial feature of political life in twentieth-century Brazil has been the growing role of the state as the central regulator of social, economic, and political life. One aspect of the expansion of the public sector in Brazil, as elsewhere, has been the accumulation by the state of a number of important social and economic functions previously exercised outside the public domain. One important function adopted by the state in Brazil is that of social protection, in the form of an elaborate and complex social insurance system. Presently some form of social protection reaches almost the entire rural population and some 78 percent of the urban population. The main social protection organization—Instituto Nacional da Previdência Social (INPS)— boasts the second largest budget in the nation (in 1975 CR $43 billion in contrast to the federal budget of Cr $113 billion) and a bureaucracy of over 102,700 employees.
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- Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , February 1977 , pp. 35 - 60
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- Copyright © University of Miami 1977
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