1975
DOI: 10.1017/s0022050700073757
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Vargas and Brazilian Economic Development, 1930–1945: A Reappraisal of his Attitude Toward Industrialization and Planning

Abstract: A struggle for industrialization is one of the major themes of the recent history of not only Brazil, but virtually the whole of Latin America. The historical evolution of that struggle finds a common denominator in the structural similarities of the national economies of the region. Assessment of Brazil's experience in the post-1929 period should therefore yield insights into the problems that Latin America as a whole faced during the international upheaval spawned by the financial collapse of 1929. Such an a… Show more

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“…The importance of foreign trade decreased, and the importance of domestic production and consumption increased. By encouraging domestic production, Brazil gained self-sufficiency in selected industries and by the end of the 1940s was able to produce up to 50 per cent of the products it needed to import until then (Hilton, 1975). Brazil's exports in the period after 1930 consisted mainly of selected agricultural products, as industrial products were unable to compete in international markets.…”
Section: The Development Of Brazil's Foreign Trade From Independence ...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The importance of foreign trade decreased, and the importance of domestic production and consumption increased. By encouraging domestic production, Brazil gained self-sufficiency in selected industries and by the end of the 1940s was able to produce up to 50 per cent of the products it needed to import until then (Hilton, 1975). Brazil's exports in the period after 1930 consisted mainly of selected agricultural products, as industrial products were unable to compete in international markets.…”
Section: The Development Of Brazil's Foreign Trade From Independence ...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…During the inter-war depression of the 1920s and 1930s, the administrations of many developing as well as industrialised countries established or increased their systems of import and export taxation in an attempt to protect their home markets and their public revenue (Lewis, 1949;O'Rourke, 2016). Often, the motive was purely protectionist; but in the larger countries of Latin America (Mexico, Argentina and especially Brazil) we begin to see at this time national administrations committing some of the fiscal resources thus derived to programmes of industrialisation (Diaz-Alejandro, 1983;Cardoso & Helwege, 1995;Hilton, 1975) and land reform (Signet, 2010;Bulmer-Thomas, 2014). The idea of some kind of connection between export taxation and anti-poverty policy is present here, but only in embryonic form: the proceeds of trade taxation are certainly used to finance developmental expenditures, but there is no contractual linkage of the proceeds of specific taxes to development, to welfare programmes or to other redistributive measures.…”
Section: Alternative Forms Of 'Fiscal Contract' In Latin America and Africamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…During the inter-war depression Brazil under President Vargas, notably, joined the group of countries practising activist fiscal policies for industrial development, and as a consequence was able during that period to record higher rates of economic growth than any country except Russia, now itself implementing five-year plans within a completely socialized economy (Hilton 1975). After the Second World War, in defiance of a liberalizing General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade agreed within the Bretton Woods agreement of 1944, what has become known as the dirigiste ('controlling' or 'directive') approach to economic policy (Lal 1983) was expanded to encompass a majority of developing countries.…”
Section: The Politics Of Pro-poor Fiscal Policy: the Evolution Of Thimentioning
confidence: 99%