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The peculiar insertion of Brazil into global value chains
Author(s) -
Callegari Julia,
Melo Tatiana Massaroli,
Carvalho Carlos Eduardo
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
review of development economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1467-9361
pISSN - 1363-6669
DOI - 10.1111/rode.12386
Subject(s) - deindustrialization , value (mathematics) , economics , global value chain , international trade , international economics , economic geography , business , economy , comparative advantage , machine learning , computer science
Brazil plays a very peculiar role in global value chains ( GVC ): the country imports high technological goods in general while going through early deindustrialization and relying mainly on basic goods for its exports. Even after developing a broad, diversified industrial framework and becoming one of the countries that has received more foreign direct investments since the 1990s, Brazil has been struggling to occupy a more technologically oriented place in GVC s. This paper examines the conditionings of this pattern of insertion by characterizing the country's quantitative and qualitative model of integration into GVC s and by analyzing the elements that can explain this performance.