IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ekm/repojs/v27y2007i2id95137.html

Building-up influence: post-war industrialization in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Author

Listed:
  • Eduardo A. Haddad

    (Departamento de Economia da FEA/USP, Fundação Instituto de Pesquisas Econômicas - Fipe Regional Economics Applications Laboratory, University of Illinois, with scholarship at CNPq and Fapesp)

  • Geoffrey Hewings

    (Regional Economics Applications Laboratory, University of Illinois)

  • Fernanda Leon

    (Cornell University)

  • Raul Cristovão dos Santos

    (Departamento de Economia da Faculdade de Economia e Administração da Universidade de São Paulo)

Abstract

This article examines the post-War industrialization process in the Brazilian State of Minas Gerais, focusing on one of its desirable outcomes, namely the capacity to generate growth through the impact of strong input-output linkages. This process is placed into historical perspective considering the ideas that permeate the economic development debate throughout the period of analysis. Changes in the regional economic structure are assessed through the use of three input-output tables for the years 1953, 1980 and 1995. By adopting the fields of influence methodology as the analytical core, it is shown that the efforts towards the creation of a more integrated regional economy have generated stronger influence of the targeted sectors (metal products, transportation equipment, chemical, and services). However, structural changes also contributed to strengthen leakage in the system originated in traditional economic activities. JEL Classification: C67; R58; O18.

Suggested Citation

  • Eduardo A. Haddad & Geoffrey Hewings & Fernanda Leon & Raul Cristovão dos Santos, 2007. "Building-up influence: post-war industrialization in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil," Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, Center of Political Economy, vol. 27(2), pages 281-300, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:ekm:repojs:v:27:y:2007:i:2:id:95137
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://periodicos.fgv.br/bjpe/article/view/95137
    File Function: Abstract page
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://periodicos.fgv.br/bjpe/article/download/95137/88601
    File Function: Full text
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    JEL classification:

    • C67 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Input-Output Models
    • R58 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Regional Government Analysis - - - Regional Development Planning and Policy
    • O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ekm:repojs:v:27:y:2007:i:2:id:95137. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Cecília Heise (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://periodicos.fgv.br/bjpe .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.