Historical experience of industrial policy in Brazil

Wilson Suzigan

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 1996, vol. 16, issue 1, 3-19

Abstract: This paper studies the practice of industrial policy and the corresponding effortof institution building in Brazil from the 1930s to the 1970s. The argument is that, althoughthat practice and the respective institutional organization succeeded in the structuring ofBrazilian industry into a process of convergence towards the international industrial structureand technological development patterns up to the 1970s, they showed themselves notfunctional in catching up with the structural changes and the new technologies of the 1980s.The paper concludes by pointing that both the established practice of industrial policy andthe related institutional organization led to a normative and institutional lock in which,together with the political inertia, hindered the necessary changes at the beginning of the1980s. JEL Classification: L52; O25.

Keywords: Industrial policy; institutional building; protectionism; late industrialization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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