Política industrial para economias prematuramente desindustrializadas no século XXI:

Integrando metas econômicas, sociais e ambientais para o Brasil

Abstract

Deindustrialization has not equally affected countries, either in terms of the share of manufacturing value added to GDP or in terms of industrial employment to total employment. Recent studies also show that, at a sub-sectoral level, the most innovative manufacturing groups are not deindustrializing in both value-added and employment shares. Though manufacturing still matters for sustaining economic growth, its subsectors have different capacities to generate and diffuse technical progress throughout the economy. Based on theoretical and empirical analyses, we suggest a mission-oriented and integrated industrial policy for Brazil by identifying the following priorities: reindustrialization; promoting innovation; generating formal jobs; reducing social inequality; engaging in the digital economy; and gradually replacing high carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions technologies with lower ones. We hope that the policy suggestions are helpful for similar developing countries that have faced premature deindustrialization and stagnation in the last decades.