Document Type
Article
Abstract
Over the past several years, Brazil’s federal government and the city and state governments of Rio de Janeiro have invested tens of billions of dollars to develop the transportation, stadium, tourist, communications and security infrastructure required to host the 2007 Pan American Games, 2014 World Cup, and 2016 Summer Olympics. As Brazil seeks to use these mega- sporting events to assert itself as a major economic player on the word stage, its strategy demonstrates how hosting mega-events serves to attract regional and global capital, and to reinforce unequal power structures at the expense of the public treasury, environmental quality and social equity.
Recommended Citation
J. Justin Woods, The Damage from Mega-Sporting Events in Brazil, Progressive Plan. Mag., Summer 2015, at 15, http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/lawstudents/17/.
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