The social development of Brazil

The Social Development of Brazil is an investigation, with an emphasis on social aspects, of Brazil's development process throughout the 20th century and the first decade of this century. Based on a broad set of deliberately constructed synthetic development indices, it is divided into six parts.

The first, covering the period 1900-2010, examines the country's demographic and economic dynamics and analyzes, based on a human development index, the HDI-I, the social performance of Brazilians over these 110 years. The second part identifies the differentiated but convergent developments of Brazilian regions and states over the last seventy years (1940-2010), tracing, based on another human development index, the HDI-2, their social trajectories.

The third part of the book, using a more complex synthetic indicator—the Social Development Index (SDI), comprised of five components and twelve subcomponents—explores the social performance and structures of the country, its regions, and its states over the past forty years (1970–2010). The fourth part, for the same period, constructs the Human Capital Index (HCI), which allows for an examination of the evolution of human resources in Brazil, its states, and regions, as well as their productive employment.

The fifth part undertakes, based on a new aggregate indicator, the Social Inclusion Index, IIS, an assessment of the process of economic inclusion, educational inclusion and digital inclusion in the past decade, covering Brazil, its regions and states.

The sixth and final part presents a social agenda for the country over the next fifteen years (until 2025), explaining the conditions for its viability.