This paper presents and comparatively analyzes three case studies of productive development agencies (PDAs) in Brazil … industry structure and innovation should affect PDAs' strategies. Finally, the paper presents conclusions, summarizing results …

potential employment generation. Brazil offers an interesting case study because of its wide spectrum of farm sizes and the … country's dual agricultural policy focus towards large commercial agribusiness enterprises, led by the Ministry of Agriculture … in Brazil's agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) growth, which has accelerated at one of the world's fastest …

This paper uses the sudden surge in Chinese competition faced by Brazil's manufacturers in the 2000s to revisit the … findings from the literature on how productivity, innovation, and employment were impacted by the Great Liberalizationa period … effects than growth effects. Inconclusive results on innovation also seem to point in this direction. The estimated effects on …