RESEARCH ARTICLE
The peculiar insertion of Brazil into global value chains
Julia Callegari,
Tatiana Massaroli Melo,
Carlos Eduardo Carvalho,
Corresponding Author
Julia Callegari
Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil
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Julia Callegari, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil.
Email: [email protected]
Search for more papers by this authorTatiana Massaroli Melo
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), São Paulo, Brazil
Search for more papers by this authorCarlos Eduardo Carvalho
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP), Brazil*
Search for more papers by this authorJulia Callegari,
Tatiana Massaroli Melo,
Carlos Eduardo Carvalho,
Corresponding Author
Julia Callegari
Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil
Correspondence
Julia Callegari, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil.
Email: [email protected]
Search for more papers by this authorTatiana Massaroli Melo
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), São Paulo, Brazil
Search for more papers by this authorCarlos Eduardo Carvalho
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP), Brazil*
Search for more papers by this author*Also affiliated to Interinstitutional Graduate Program in International Relations San Tiago Dantas (UNESP, UNICAMP, PUC-SP), São Paulo, Brazil.
Abstract
Brazil plays a very peculiar role in global value chains (GVC): the country imports high technological goods in general while going through early deindustrialization and relying mainly on basic goods for its exports. Even after developing a broad, diversified industrial framework and becoming one of the countries that has received more foreign direct investments since the 1990s, Brazil has been struggling to occupy a more technologically oriented place in GVCs. This paper examines the conditionings of this pattern of insertion by characterizing the country's quantitative and qualitative model of integration into GVCs and by analyzing the elements that can explain this performance.
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