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Between 1968 and 1974 Brazilian exports increased at an annual average rate of 27%, coinciding with extremely high rates of the country’s economic growth. Interesting is therefore the role played by the exports in the Brazilian seven year boom and the discussion of the outward looking strategy and its limits after the end of the boom and the increasing balance of payments constraints.
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Edmar L. Bacha, “Issues and evidence on recent Brazilian economic growth“, World Development, vol. 5, nos. 1/2, Jan.–Feb. 1977, p. 59.
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Research Institute for Foreign Trade, Copenhagen School of Economics and Business Administration. — A preliminary version of this paper was presented in a Seminar at the Research Institute for Foreign Trade of the Copenhagen School of Economics and Business Administration in October 1977, and I am indebted to participants for comments. I acknowledge gratefully the research support from the Institut für Iberoamerika-Kunde, Hamburg.
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Hoffmann, H. The export oriented development strategy in Brazil. Intereconomics 13, 88–93 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02928849
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02928849