The side effects of a big push growth strategy: export incentives and primary education under military rule in Brazil, 1967–1985

Thomas H. Kang, Isabela Menetrier and Flavio Comim

Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 2024, vol. 42, issue 3, 387-414

Abstract: During the military regime in Brazil (1964–1985), enrollment ratios in primary education grew substantially in the first decade under dictatorship, but stagnated in the mid-1970s. This paper shows that education spending might depend on the levels of centralisation in tax matters. Using panel data regressions and qualitative evidence, we argue that a massive big push industrialisation programme increased the pressure on external accounts, leading the government to intensify an export incentive policy based on tax subsidies that decreased the income of subnational governments. As a result, the capacity of funding mass education was compromised in the second half of the 1970s.

Date: 2024
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