Julio Silva
SOC300 – Sociology of Develop Countries
Professor: Stacy Kelly Leighton
September, 1, 2013
The organizational structure of the World Bank is concentrated and unequal, because the voting power is proportional to the resources of each country. Thus, these countries have autonomy to modify rules and veto proposals financially poorer countries (Gragnolati, Jorgense & Rocha, 2011).
I definitely think that is justified by the Bank as a way to help peripheral countries to structure its economy, establishing a pattern of neoliberal development. The bank 's proposal suggests deep changes in political institutions, as in the case of market opening to foreign trade and privatization of the economy (Gragnolati, Jorgense & Rocha, 2011).
The targeted investments in Brazil are in favor of programs directed to health, education and improvement of public services. Another benefit is the social inclusion through participatory stimuli, as well as increased productivity and economic stability (Gragnolati, Jorgense & Rocha, 2011).
With the definition of neoliberalism that primary education becomes an education for all, which would ensure the sustainability of the debtor countries. However, at this time the design changed, because the concept of globalization in which they believe in equality between the countries began to be replaced by the concept of fairness, believing that only a part of could not develop.
Based on this new concept, it moved admit inequality in developing countries. Since the equity was comprised of a single action, this does not guarantee that equality between men. About this context education has to be seen as a mechanism to achieve goals (Gragnolati, Jorgense & Rocha, 2011).
The most significant change that has occurred in the area of education was the exclusive elementary school, one that came to be understood as being required for the
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