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This paper analyzes the evolution of the share of imported intermediate goods in the production process and its influence on the share of manufacturing in value added for the Brazilian economy, covering the period span 1995-2008. In a first step, we estimate input-output matrices, at constant...
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This paper discusses the de-industrialization hypothesis in Brazil based on indicators usually not found in the … Brazil is suffering a de-industrialization process in the negative sense. …
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This paper describes the process of trade liberalization in the telecommunications industry implemented from the mid-1990s and examines how such a measure, which allowed foreign capital an important role in the control of operators, associated with the privatization program affected the...
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industrial policy debate in Brazil, stressing the dilemmas involved in supporting the development of technology-intensive sectors … the winners. Third, I show that the real industrial policy in Brazil, when necessary, tends to discriminate against … foreign-owned firms in some sectors to build national large firms. And last, I argue that today`s industrial policy in Brazil …
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This paper investigates the sources of structural change in the Brazilian economy in the 2000s. On that purpose, it uses the input-output structural decomposition analysis and introduces a method to correct the influence of prices on the time behavior of the technical coefficients, making them...
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The aim of this study is to evaluate the potential process of early deindustrialization in Brazil, or the reduction of … reduction process of manufacturing share in the added value, which has been observed in Brazil since the 1980`s. Our major … interest is to evaluate if the overvaluation of the exchange rate in Brazil could exert some influence on this process and the …
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This paper focuses on the use of imported inputs and on the importance of export revenues to Brazilian manufacturing firms and points out the implications of these results from the viewpoint of the insertion of the Brazilian industry in global value chains. It is based on information from the...
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United States and India represent trade partners with strong demand for Brazilian food or interesting potential for future business. Here the objective was to verify the importance and potential in USA and Indian markets for Brazilian agricultural exports. Results based on identifying products...
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It is renowned the importance of trade balance for maintaining macroeconomic equilibrium. So, the objective of the study was to identify main products in Brazilian agricultural exports from 1989 to 2012 and, secondly, to describe the identified products and formulate questions for future...
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include, for example, similar analyses at level of agricultural inputs employed in Brazil. Moreover, it would be useful to … investigate if it is worth for Brazil boost internal production in the case of non-regular imports of foods. …
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