Crawling up the value chain: domestic institutions and non-traditional foreign direct investment in Brazil, 1990-2010

Patrick J. W. Egan ()

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 2015, vol. 35, issue 1, 156-174

Abstract: Brazil attracted relatively little innovation-intensive and export-oriented foreign investment during the liberalization period of 1990 to 2010, especially compared with competitors such as China and India. Adopting an institutionalist perspective, I argue that multinational firm investment profiles can be partly explained by the characteristics of investment promotion policies and bureaucracies charged with their implementation. Brazil's FDI policies were passive and non-discriminating in the second half of the 1990s, but became more ive under Lula. Investment promotion efforts have often been undercut by weakly coordinated and inconsistent institutions. The paper highlights the need for active, discriminating investment promotion policies if benefits from non-traditional FDI are to be realized. JEL Classification: F2; F5; F6; L2; O3.

Keywords: multinational enterprises; foreign direct investment; Brazil; industrial policy; investment promotion; innovation; export promotion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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