Citação: desindustrialização ou produtividade?

The Brazilian experience shows that the comparative level of productivity in a less-developed country that suffers from an abysmal productivity gap relative to leading countries is inclined to change in tandem with industrialization and technological development. The manufacturing industry is the locus and propelling engine of properties that spill over to growth in the aggregate. In this respect, our results challenge previous studies that downplay the importance of manufacturing in overall income convergence.

However, the volatility in the productivity pattern also reveals that catching up in manufacturing does not occur unconditionally, as some recent contributions have suggested. Deindustrialization may not be the foremost convergence obstacle for less-developed countries in recent decades. Our result shows that the most problematic feature of Brazilian manufacturing is lagging behind in comparative productivity.

Lara, C. and Prado, S., ‘ From boom to gloom: Brazilian labour productivity in manufacturing relative to the United States, 1912–2019’, Economic History Review, 76 (2022), pp. 1110–1140. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13228