DIGITAL REPOSITORY
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Since the 1970s, Brazilian agriculture has undergone far-reaching changes and has played a major role in agricultural production worldwide. This article assesses the structural heterogeneity prevailing in Brazilian and United States agriculture by studying total factor productivity (TFP), which has increased in both economies, mainly through technologies ...

This article analyses the pattern of technical change in the Brazilian economy between 1952 and 2008. A Marx-biased pattern of labour-saving and capital-using change predominated in the period under study. Three phases in the dynamism of technical change can be distinguished, however. The first, from 1952 to 1973, was highly dynamic. In the second, ...

This article aims to analyse the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) into Brazil between 2001 and 2013. It uses a vector error correction (VEC) model to analyse both the long-term function and the impulse-response function. The results show that levels of economic activity, wages and productivity are positively related to FDI inflows, ...

En este artículo se utiliza la metodología del espacio de productos para analizar la relación entre la complejidad económica y el desarrollo económico en el Brasil y la República de Corea. Se toman los datos de importación como indicador de la desventaja comparativa revelada para destacar la relevancia del mercado local, se presenta el espacio de ...

This study sets out to obtain values for the income elasticities and inequality of poverty in urban and rural areas of the Brazilian states. A panel data methodology capable of capturing spatial effects via a spatial lag model is used to identify whether there are spatial spillovers of poverty in the census situations studied. Changes in growth and ...

El objetivo de este artículo es analizar los determinantes del flujo de inversión extranjera directa (IED) hacia el Brasil entre 2001 y 2013. Para ello se empleó un modelo de vectores de corrección de errores (VEC) para el análisis de la función de largo plazo y de la función de impulso-respuesta. Los resultados indican que los niveles de actividad ...

En este trabajo se evalúan los efectos de las regalías petroleras en la estructura productiva brasileña y sus repercusiones en la desigualdad regional. Para ello, se utilizó un modelo interregional de insumo-producto, con año base 2008, constituido por los 27 estados brasileños y 26 sectores. En la estrategia de simulación se consideró la asignación ...

This article evaluates the impact of oil royalties on Brazil’s production structure and their effects on regional inequality. An interregional input-output model was used, encompassing the 27 Brazilian states and 26 sectors, with base year 2008. The simulation strategy assumed 75% of these funds are channelled into education and 25% into the health ...

Starting in the 1980s, Brazil and Mexico adopted diverging trade and production strategies, which had significant effects on their respective production and trade structures. This study investigates how the two countries’ different patterns of trade specialization affected the complexity of their respective production structures between 1995 and 2011. ...

This paper uses the product space methodology to gain new perspectives on the relationship between economic complexity and economic development, illustrated by case studies of Brazil and the Republic of Korea. It takes import data as an indicator of revealed comparative disadvantage to highlight the relevance of the local market. Product space networks ...