Transcript As cinco crises

Productive, social and
ecological Keynesianism
Cristovam Buarque
13th International Conference of the Basic Income Earth Network:
Basic Income as an instrument for justice and peace
Rio de Janeiro, 2nd July 2010
The five crises
Financial
crisis
The five crises
Financial
crisis
Economic
crisis
The five crises
Financial
crisis
Economic
crisis
Social
crisis
The five crises
Financial
crisis
Economic
crisis
Ecological
crisis
Social
crisis
The five crises
The negative intersections between the crises
Finance
Economy
Ecology
Social
To balance finances, GDP and social policies suffer. To raise the GDP and social
welfare, finances and ecology suffer.
The five crises
The fifth crisis
Financial
crisis
Economic
crisis
Ideological crisis
Ecological
crisis
Social
crisis
Productive, social and ecological
Keynesianism
Traditional Keynesianism
Government
transfe
r
Unemployed
income
consumption
Market
dynamic
recovery
Productive, social and ecological
Keynesianism
Productive Keynesianism
Satisfaction of
needs
Governmen
t
income
transfer
to hire
Poor people
employmen
t
income
consumption
Market
dynamic
recovery
Goods and
services to meet
the needs of the
poor
Productive, social and ecological
Keynesianism
All children in school - the impacts of the BolsaEscola
Promotes local
governmental
empowerment
Increases adult
literacy
Enhances the
quality of
education
Eradicates
child labor
Inhibits migration
BOLSA-ESCOLA
Drastically
reduces drop-out
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Impacts on Children's Life and Education
Impacts on Society and Economy
n
Impacts on Citizenship and Solidarity
Defends human
rights, especially
children's rights
Enhances
family bonds
Empowers women
Promotes economic
growth from the
bottom of the social
pyramid
Creates job and
income growth
Relieves poverty
(increases income,
brings better food,
health, housing)
Productive, social and ecological
Keynesianism
The school savings program – Poupança Escola: gives the student a
financial incentive for annual promotion to the next grade and for
continuing the studies until the end of secondary school.
Guarantee of a Preschool Salary and of a Preschool Basket: avoids
that mothers abandon their children in order to work. Mothers
receive a salary and a basket with food and pedagogical toys for
their kids. Baskets will be distributed in the school, where mothers
will also receive the necessary instruction.
Promotion of reading: fights one main characteristic of poverty – the
low reading level, even among the literate. It is necessary to carry
the libraries to the people, in the form of Domestic Libraries
(bibliotecas domésticas) or Book Suitcases (malas do livro)
Paid Civic Service: building a society without partition demands a
program aimed at young people, offering a salary, a goal, a labor
ability, satisfaction, citizenship.
Productive, social and ecological
Keynesianism
School at home : paid incorporation of up to 500 thousand young
people and adolescent to serve as monitors na supplementary
education program.
Incorporation of the Brazilian University into the antipoverty struggle:
–
Preparation and recycling of elementary and secondary school
teachers
–
Involvement in the eradication of adult illiteracy in four year's time
–
Reorganization of some courses so that they contribute to the
formulation and implementation of antipoverty policies and
respect for ecology, employment creation, valorization of social
justice, housing, and health and nutrition care.
Healthcare for everyone: simple actions can increase the health level
of the poor, guaranteeing running water and sewage, offering family
medical care, building efficient public hospital, creating jobs for
cleaning agents.
Productive, social and ecological
Keynesianism
The Literacy Scholarship – the Bolsa Alfa: to mobilize the illiterates’
idle energy so that they will learn to read as quickly as possible. One
way to accomplish this is to pay adults to learn to read.
Training and financing of the Small Producer: a program to train the
workforce and, at the same time, offer credit and technical
assistance to those trained
People's Bank: since the financial system only makes loans to those
who already have access to credit, it would be a great revolution if
capital is made available to finance small producers.
Unmigration: any antipoverty program will have limited effect unless
the whole country is involved in an intense unmigration program from
urban areas. A fund can be created and used to pay the equivalent
to half a minimum wage for up to six months to the unemployed
people would return to their place of origin.
Productive, social and ecological
Keynesianism
Space of superfluous consumption
to be prevented by regulations
of environmental protection
Limits to necessary
consumption
Social ascension ladder
Space of tolerated inequality,
established by individual talent and
persistence
Social protection net
Space of social exclusion
to be prevented by social policies
Productive, social and ecological
Keynesianism
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Text: Cristovam Buarque
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