economies. In Brazil, services correspond to more than 66% of the valued added in the economy. It is a value close to that … observed in richer nations. Notwithstanding, there are few economic studies about the services sector in Brazil, in the current … the industry is more pronounced in the European Union than in Brazil. On the other side, the productivity in the services …

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 …

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 …