Which statement most accurately describes the economic impact of sharecropping?
the sharecropping system prevented landowners from making a profit.
sharecropping was an efficient system that freed laborers to work in new urban factories.
sharecropping made agriculture so profitable that the system is still used today.
sharecropping tied so many laborers to farming that it delayed industrial growth in the south.

for starters, there is the structural trend of rising primary government expenditure as a share of gdp, which reached 36% in 2014, up from 22% in 1991. this increase reflected a political desire to address the poverty and inequality that had gone unaddressed during previous decades. to support the increase, brazil’s government increased taxes on consumption and promoted progress toward labor-market formalization. nonetheless, public investment, particularly in infrastructure, took a hit. in fact, with the exception of the 2005-2008 period, total investment as a share of gdp has remained below 20% since 1991.

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