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ID159400
Title ProperIndustrial policy and state-making: Brazil’s attempt at oil-based industrial development
LanguageENG
AuthorMassi, Eliza
Summary / Abstract (Note)This paper examines the changing strategies of developmental states using Brazil’s oil-based industrial policy as a case study. We analyse the relationship between the state, Petrobras and industrial elites in the context of Brazil’s renewed emphasis on sector-specific industrial development strategy. Taking stock and re-examining the developmental state model, we suggest that developmental states are inherently political, particularly their bureaucracy and state-owned enterprises (SOEs), and that money politics is intricately woven into state-guided high growth regimes. Given the difficulty of privatisation as a solution to SOE (mis)governance, the challenge for Brazil is to mediate extreme political interventions that have eroded Petrobras’ autonomy in the past and to sustain institutional capacity to direct rents towards investment and innovation.
`In' analytical NoteThird World Quarterly Vol. 39, No.6; 2018: p.1133-1150
Journal SourceThird World Quarterly Vol: 39 No 6
Key WordsIndustrial policy ;  Oil and Gas industry ;  Developmental State ;  Brazilian Developmentalism


 
 
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