Big Business and Brazil's Economic Reforms

ISBN-13: 9781138813885 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 186 str.

Luiz Kormann

Opis

In the 1990s Brazil launched a comprehensive economic liberalization program. It lifted its trade barriers, adopted new market-oriented regulations, opened up its capital market and abandoned earlier efforts to internalize production and to build vertically integrated systems across several sectors of the economy. In spite of the visible gap that separated the top global giants from the large local enterprises, Brazilian companies seemed to be willing to join in an economic liberalization process that was bound to expose them to unprecedented levels of competition, bring about a high degree of uncertainty and, in many cases, ultimately put their own businesses at risk. Big Business and Brazil's Economic Reforms examines the most emblematic aspect of the Brazilian economic reforms, the support from parts of the local entrepreneurial class for the opening up of the economy. It investigates the reasons why Brazil carried out these economic reforms in the 1990s, the transition process and the impact of the opening up of the economy on some of its most important sectors, such as the aerospace, auto and auto parts, food processing, oil and petrochemicals, ethanol, steel, telecoms and telecom equipment industries. This book offers an in-depth analysis of Brazil's distinctive development paths, from the Latin American economic thinking of the early stages of its industrialization to the neo-liberal stance of the present day. It sheds new light on one of the main challenges facing all the large developing economies in their move to become more integrated into the world economy, the fostering of large enterprises, and is a great resource for students and researchers interested in global business, development economics, and Latin American economic history.

Spis treści

Part I: The Economic Reforms in Brazil and the Lessons from South Korea and China  1. Brazil and the World Economy  2. Industrial Development and Foreign Trade  3. Lessons from South Korea and China  4. Conclusions  Part II: The Public Sector, the Private Sector and the Multinationals: Brazil’s Long Road from Structuralism to Neo-liberalism  5. From Rural to Urban - the First Latin American Industrialisation Effort  6. Dependency Theory  7. Conclusions  Part III: The Shift towards Market Reforms in Brazil in the 1990s  8. Free to Grow: a Proposal for a Modern Brazil  9. The Opening Up Process  10. The Reaction From the Brazilian Business Community  Part IV: Market-oriented Reforms and Brazil’s Largest Companies  11. Opening Up the Market  12. The Top 500 Companies  13. The Top 25 Companies  14. The Impact on Technology Innovation  15. The Automotive and Aerospace Industries in Brazil  16. Other Key Industries in Brazil  17. Conclusions

O autorze

Luiz Fernando Kormann holds a PhD from the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK.