Regional deindustrialization: concepts, causes, effects and the Brazilian case

José Alderir Silva

doi:10.1590/0104-530x4682-19

Abstract

Abstract This paper aims to analyze the process of deindustrialization of the Brazilian economy from a regional perspective. Since the mid-2000s there has been an intense debate about the process of deindustrialization in the Brazilian economy, obtaining significant advances in the causes, consequences and, especially, the emphasis given to the role of industry in the development of Brazil. However, the deindustrialization in the Brazilian economy is treated in a homogeneous way, so that the discussion in the regional perspective is practically disregarded. This paper attempts to reduce this debate gap in the sense that it develops concepts appropriate to the regional space and explains its causes.

Highlights

This paper aims to analyze the process of deindustrialization of the Brazilian economy from the regional perspective in the period 1995 to 2015, seeking to identify in which region this process has been concentrated
Since the mid-2000s, there has been an intense debate about the process of deindustrialization in the Brazilian economy, obtaining significant advances regarding the causes, consequences and, especially, the emphasis given to the role of industry in the development of Brazil
The so-called new-developmentalists defend the hypothesis that the Brazilian economy suffers from a process of deindustrialization derived from the Dutch disease, the latter caused by the real overvaluation of the exchange rate

Summary

Introduction

This paper aims to analyze the process of deindustrialization of the Brazilian economy from the regional perspective in the period 1995 to 2015, seeking to identify in which region this process has been concentrated. This paper attempts to alleviate this gap in the debate around the Brazilian economy, drawing attention to the analysis of deindustrialization in the regional perspective. The papers that attempt to analyze the deindustrialization process at the regional level do not find a definition of the adequate concept (See for example, Spíndola & Lima (2015), using their appropriate definitions for national economies. The following section attempts to enumerate and explain the main causes of de-industrialization at the regional level.

Regional deindustrialization: a conceptual definition

The main causes of regional deindustrialization

Findings

Conclusion