Os efeitos da internacionalização produtiva no Brasil

Abstract

This study aims to observe and to analyze the productive internationalization process and its effects on the Brazilian economy, since 1980 to the current days. The more specific intentions are investigating about the ways that this process was structured at global scale, how it occurred the reception and integration policies promoted by Brazil and the consequences on aspects of the industry, competitiveness on trade and economic growth for the country. First, the introduction explains how it was the Brazilian inclusion on the first attempts of industrialization through import substitution model. From there, the process of financial and trade liberalization, mainly in the 1990‟s, with the stabilizer plan policies intensifying the level of productive submission to the foreign capital, in the attempt of technological modernization and foreign trade competitiveness impulse. A theoretical and analytical methodology was essential to observe aspects of the strategies of multinational corporations, the phenomenon of financialization and external vulnerability After the discussion of this scenario, a perspective of recent years, on the commodities boom, reprimarization trend for export-led and the consolidation of resource-seeking and market-seeking strategies of the foreign subsidiaries. Finally, some briefly discussions about the limits and possibilities established for Brazil on the insertion in global value chains, especially its current position and its trend for the coming years.