We examine a little explored and yet important aspect of the poor productivity in Brazil: the performance of the … service sector. The characteristics of the services sector in Brazil are well known – the sector is composed mainly of small …, underfunded, poorly equipped and poorly managed firms, competition is weak in several segments, and services quality and …

globalization imposes high degree of competition between firms in the latter region and those from all over the world so that …

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 …

service sector (Brazil and United States), by focusing on final and intermediary demand changes and sectorial productivity as … well. Input-output matrices for Brazil and United States were used and two applications were carried out: structural …-industrial linkages play a major role only for United States. Thirdly, there is now evidence of cost disease for Brazil. Finally …