ABSTRACT
What has been the nature of Brazil’s enduring crisis? Is Brazil destined to be the perpetual economic recidivist? Why in the face of near hyperinflation has Brazil not collapsed into economic and social anarchy and how has it even managed in 1993 and 1994 to register growth rates of 5 per cent or more? Why does a fertile country with a powerful agro-economy need a national programme against hunger? Why do more than 30 million Brazilians live in misery? Is the growing violence and penetration of the drug trade in the slums of the major cities controllable?
