The article aims at helping to provide a conceptual framework for the Brazilian debate on economic development strategies. It designs a strategy on the basis of the idea of the existence of three demand-led growth fronts, or three engines of investment: mass consumption, natural resources and...

In this paper we examine from a sectoral point of view the main trends of investment in the Brazilian economy in the 2000s and its relation to value added and to imports and exports coefficients. It is argued for the existence of three expansion fronts: infrastructure, natural resources and mass...