EconomiA (Jan 2015)

The Brazilian exports of labor-intensive goods in the 2000s: An analysis using the Constant Market Share Method

  • Flávio Benevett Fligenspan,
  • Marcos Tadeu Caputi Lélis,
  • André Moreira Cunha,
  • Rômulo Viana Clezar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econ.2015.03.005
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 1
pp. 128 – 144

Abstract

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This paper aims at analyzing international trade in labor-intensive sectors in the 2000s, with a special reference to the Brazilian case. Therefore, we use the constant market share analysis to compare several countries’ export performance. It was observed that Asian countries emerged strengthened from this period. Brazil had a mediocre performance, losing market-share in global markets. Moreover, competition from Asian economies and even from the small Central American countries, such as Guatemala and El Salvador, has undermined the penetration of Brazilian exports in its major trade partners, which are North America and South America.

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