Comparative Studies

Project for International Cooperation

COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN PUBLIC POLICIES AND DEVELOPMENT

Start date: 01/08/2018
End date: 31/07/2022

Description
France has a long tradition in the creation and development of public policies, a reference in the “État Providence”. The crises, which occurred in the 1970s, created great and gradual changes in the system, since that period. At the same time, these policies continue to be a theme for in-depth studies, whose results, controversies and challenges are widely disseminated, which does not mean that such studies should not continue. The case of China is not widely known in Brazil. An extremely poor country in the 1950s, with one of the lowest GDP per inhabitant in the world, it reached the level of countries with medium income. Moreover, it became the economy with the highest GDP in the world, considering the purchasing power (in dollars), according to data from the World Bank. The positive social consequences (increase in life expectancy, from 43.8 years in 1960, to 76.1 years in 2015) are considered by some authors an achievement bigger than its economic progress. In the last three decades, China removed from the zone of poverty almost the double of the population of the United States, 40% more people than the entire population of the European Union and more than the population of Latin America (ROSS, 2016:105). Countries in various stages of development offer their citizens public policies which are different, considering their ways of organization, range of coverage, degrees and ways of funding and results. This project has the objective of developing comparative studies in the fields of health, education and social protection, in partnership with Centre d’Économie de l’Université Paris Nord (CEPN) and with the Institut de Recherches Économiques et Sociales (IRES – Paris, France); the Southwest University (Chongquing - China) and Lingnan University (Hong Kong - China).