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 …

The paper analyses industrial competitiveness policies adopted in Brazil from 1995 to 2000 and compares them to … Agreement - survived the wave of difficulties associated with the widening competitiveness gap between Brazil and Argentina …