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. -- de-industrialization ; manufacturing …

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 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 …