Teixeira, Arilton; Bugarin, Mirta N. S.; Ellery Jr, … - Fundação Instituto Capixaba de Pesquisas em … - 2009
In the beginning of the eighties the Brazilian growth rate of per capita GDP fell abruptly. In this paper we ask if this fall can be ex-plained by the behavior of technological progress (measured by Total Factor Productivity or TFP). Our main conclusion is that the behavior of TFP can fairly...
