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This paper investigates the impacts of greater trade openness on employment, poverty and inequality in Brazil. The … will not be sufficient to significantly reduce poverty and inequality in Brazil …
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This paper investigates the impact of market-oriented economic reforms on union behaviour in Brazil. Previous work … power has increased in the more competitive environment since the implementation of the reforms in Brazil in the early 1990s …
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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 …
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and services in Brazil? Have services contributed to increasing industrial competitiveness? The purpose of this paper is … sector in GDP is disproportionately high in Brazil, reaching levels seen only in advanced economies; (2) Services account for … is a key step to enhance industrial competitiveness in Brazil …
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soybean seeds in Brazil, which had heterogeneous effects on agricultural productivity across areas with different soil and …
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This paper analyzes the evolution of the share of imported intermediate goods in the production process and its influence on the share of manufacturing in value added for the Brazilian economy, covering the period span 1995-2008. In a first step, we estimate input-output matrices, at constant...
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In recent years, several economists have argued that the sharp loss of competitiveness of the Brazilian industry was caused by a strong exchange rate appreciation. However, other economists have attributed this loss of competitiveness to the dismal growth of labor productivity in the Brazilian...
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The manufacturing industry's loss in participation, phenomena called "deindustrialization", has been observed for the Brazilian economy for a while and seems to have intensified from mid-2000s. However, the literature has not developed a consistent or integrated analysis of this process. We have...
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In this article, we discuss the current pattern of territorial reconfiguration of the Brazilian industry, its current forms, and motivations in order to problematize some of the most significant challenges of the current regional issue. We have brought new evidence of how it keeps...
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