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Quase estagnação no Brasil e o novo desenvolvimentismo .

Authors :
BRESSER-PEREIRA, LUIZ CARLOS
Source :
Brazilian Journal of Political Economy / Revista de Economia Política. Apr-Jun2022, Vol. 42 Issue 2, p503-531. 29p.
Publication Year :
2022

Abstract

From the 1980s, Brazil quasi-stagnated while East-Asia continued to grow. What went wrong? Classical developmentalists and post-Keynesians argue the cause was the desertion of the national developmental project based on structural change or industrialization. New-developmental economics agrees but is more specific: two historical new facts reduced investments. In the 1980s, a fiscal crisis of the state defined by negative public savings, broke up. This crisis, which was not resolved, led to the fall of public investments. As to private investments, they also have fallen as a percentage of GDP (when we compare with the 1970). They have fallen due to an action and an omission. The action was the mistaken adoption of growth with foreign indebtedness policy and the consequent excess of capital inflows. The omission was the suspension of the neutralization of the Dutch disease. Both resulted in a long-term overvaluation of the exchange rate and stopped industrialization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
Portuguese
ISSN :
01013157
Volume :
42
Issue :
2
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Brazilian Journal of Political Economy / Revista de Economia Política
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
156984929
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-31572022-3328