Diversity In Brazil

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Africa is largely known for its resourcefulness on raw materials that places it in a state of great potentiality for development. However, numerous studies have shown that the cultural perspectives of personal development through less constraining processes have remained the major issue that hinder the region from developing (Ejimabo (2013). In most of the African countries, political leaders have development a tendency of self-dependence when dealing with the matter of sharing of national economic resources. Political seats are highly fought for, as people aspire to benefit personally from the public properties. Poor leadership decisions are largely the main issue to base the blame on, a detrimental fact that has resulted to massive poverty …show more content…

Cash transfers and public services have played the major role particularly in the endorsement of ‘Bolsa Familia’. Cultural diversity was the key issue contributing to the occurrence of inequality with socio-economic and political representation in Brazil. However, the political will to make transformational leadership possible enabled the government to enact and successfully implement social policies that promote unity, equality, and social representation. As argued by Ncube et al, African leaders should learn from countries such as Brazilian where formulation of well-designed redistributive program has helped reduce poverty at a very high rate. Moreover, such programs are considered potential on boosting the development speed on middle-income nations within Southern Africa, as they have had a long-term issue of having slow development process. Numerous political and economic scholars, researchers, and politicians have clearly implicated that Africa should tap its own experiences of success, a potential reality exhibited in the reiteration of useful macroeconomic buffers and stability witnessed from the region’s state of …show more content…

As noted by Lewis concerning religious influence in Malaysia, The Advocates for Human Rights noted Cameroon as a country affected by such cultural influence. In the Advocate’s report, it was stated that activism for women inclusion in political decision-making has always been less fruitful. In Cameroon, women population is estimated to be 51%, while women representatives in the government are as low as 13.5%. Djateng (2011) argued that majority of Cameroon community members consider peace of God to be the fruit of justice which embodies tolerance, unity, respect, and love. Such religious connections have created power-distance whereby an entrepreneur or a politician is treated as the idea source of prominent, ideal decisions. Associating such leadership constraints in respect to the power of leaders in making critical decisions, Cavum (2007) stated that practices are common to countries endorsing culture of collectivism. Using Malaysia as an example, Cavum argued that countries characterized by such cultures tend to have autocratic leadership and centralization of authority in decision-making within businesses. Moreover, a firm operating in Malaysia, as it is with those operating in regions endorsing high-power

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