Brazilian Journal of Political Economy (Mar 2011)

Crescimento e industrialização no Brasil: uma interpretação à luz das propostas de Kaldor

  • Marcos Tostes Lamonica,
  • Carmen Aparecida de Feijó

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0101-31572011000100006
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 31, no. 1
pp. 118 – 138

Abstract

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Growth and industrialization in Brazil. In this paper, based on the writings of Kaldor and his followers, we compare two phases of Brazilian economic growth, one showing fast growth rate and other with lack of growth. Our aim is to analyze the Brazilian economic behavior in the last 40 years, pointing out economic policy intervention, structural change, foreign trade and capital flows as determinants to account for gross product development path performance. Our aim is to shed some light on which is the potential rate of growth of the Brazilian economy nowadays, considering its historical growth path and recent structural changes in the industrial sector.

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