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Portuguese Abstract: Apesar da existência de diversas tentativas de produzir ferro localmente tanto no período colonial quanto durante o Império, por motivos vários tais iniciativas, cada uma a seu tempo, malograram e a siderurgia brasileira ingressou no século XX com muito pouca expressão...
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Portuguese Abstract: Em fevereiro de 1931, Getúlio Vargas proferiu em Belo Horizonte um conhecido discurso e fez então uma de suas mais importantes intervenções públicas no debate siderúrgico. Esse discurso fez fortuna na historiografia, sobretudo pela sua manifestação incisiva em favor...
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This article documents the impact of the Brazilian railway network on structural transformation between the late nineteenth and middle twentieth century. We exploit variation induced by geographic location, where municipalities near the least-cost routes were more likely to be connected to...
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Spanish Abstract: Este artículo analiza las trayectorias de modernización estructural para la industria de ocho países latinoamericanos (Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, México, Perú, Uruguay) desde 1970 hasta la fecha. Desde una perspectiva teórica estructuralista que...
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El propósito de este documento es analizar el proceso de desindustrialización experimentado por el sector productivo en Venezuela, a través de tres modelos productivos. Si bien el fenómeno se observa en el conjunto del sector y su vinculación a la renta petrolera, la contracción en la...
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El objetivo del estudio es analizar las diferencias de desarrollo economico existentes entre los paises latinoamericanos, teniendo en cuenta su situacion en 1980 y la evolucion durante el periodo 1980-99. En el analisis econometrico se combinan datos de 22 paises y se mide el impacto de la...
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This paper quantitatively shows that the 1945 regional differences in the degree of development of manufacturing industry are explained by human capital accumulation prior to industrial development. Human capital accumulation was more intense in the regions with higher presence of non white free...
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El desarrollo industrial colombiano en la primera mitad del siglo XX no solo fue un proceso tardío en el contexto internacional, sino desigual entre sus regiones. Con base en el censo industrial de 1945, utilizando información por municipio y por sector, el presente documento muestra de forma...
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This study investigates if and how different episodes of large net inflows – export boom, remittances, FDIs, or aid – caused Dutch disease in Latin American countries. We investigate this disease – i.e. the decline of manufacturing output – with special reference to the channels through...
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The debate over the Brazilian national steel-making problem took shape in the end of the 1900 decade and lasted until 1941, with the creation, by the Brazilian federal government, of the Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN – National Steel Company) to build and exploit the Volta Redonda steel...
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