Economic Liberalization and Industrial Performance in Brazil

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-829612-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 634 g

Reihe: Queen Elizabeth House Series in Development Studies

In the past ten years the Brazilian economy has experience an unprecedented wave of market liberalization as import substitution has been progressively abandoned in favour of integration into the global economy. Trade barriers have fallen, privatizations have been implemented, and government procurement has been cut back. Although these policy shifts will be familiar to many, their implications in terms of performance may not.

Using a comprehensive array of primary and secondary sources and in-depth company case studies, this book examines how one vitally important Brazilian industrial sector-the non-serial capital goods sector-coped with the onset of liberalization. While liberalization undoubtedly helped to promote greater efficiency in some areas of corporate performance, the impact elsewhere was far less favourable. This differentiated response raises some interesting and troubling theoretical and policy
issues.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Amann, Edmund

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Sonstige Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Handwerk
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen: Allgemeines

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Edmund Amann is a Fellow at the Centre for Brazilian Studies, Oxford