Gustavo Britto
Biographic Data
| ID | 228717 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gustavo Britto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gustavo |
| FAMILY NAME | Britto |
| SIGNATURE | BRITTO G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5285-3684 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Institutional Duality
Related industries, economic complexity, and regional diversification
This paper contributes to the literature on economic relatedness and diversification in Brazil. It uses firm-level, occupational data to estimate the relationship between regions’ diversification, the degree of relatedness, and economic complexity indexes. Given that the current literature often focuses on a single variable, a new relatedness measure is introduced. It includes three new relatedness dimensions. The co-occupation captures the degre…
Agricultural economic complexity and regional inequalities
The paper presents an original application of economic complexity to the agricultural sector aiming to determine its suitability to measure and depict regional structural inequalities across Brazilian regions. Using census data, we calculate agricultural complexity indexes for products (PCI-Agro) and regions (ECI-Agro) and the agricultural product space. We show that higher PCI-Agro is associated with higher levels of productivity, education, inc…
Distribution and Productivity Growth
The paper investigates whether productivity growth is affected by the rate of growth of income and by that of employment for a representative sample of Latin American countries from the 1980s to the early 2010s. Having post-Kaleckian models as background, the paper empirically assesses the relationship between these variables, which are believed to be behind the underdeveloped trap, low productivity growth, high income concentration and low-incom…
Brazilian industry and knowledge absorption
Technological composition and productive diversification are distinguishing features of countries’ long-term growth trajectories. Investing in research and development (R&D), infrastructure and technology is a possible alternative for developing countries looking to accelerate their growth trajectory. In the case of Brazil, the production structure must be modified and productivity increased, by endogenizing technological advances, in order to na…
Growth, Distribution, and External Constraints
The purpose of this research is to analyze whether the Brazilian economy behaved under a wage-led or profit-led regime between 1960 and 2011, considering a Post-Kaleckian model in a context of external constraints. The time span is limited by data availability (i.e., 2011). To answer the question of whether the Brazilian economy works under a wage-led or profit-led regime, we propose a simple Post-Kaleckian model. The model suggests that a profit…
Introdução à Economia do Subdesenvolvimento
Este artigo foi originalmente publicado como introdução à nova edição revisada em português da obra clássica editada por A. N. Agarwala e S. P. Singh, A Economia do Subdesenvolvimento (Agarwala e Singh, 2010). O livro faz parte da série Desenvolvimento e Política Pública, publicada pelo Centro Internacional Celso Furtado de Políticas para o Desenvolvimento. Ao longo do tempo, a introdução à nova edição se tornou uma importante referência na liter…
The great divide
This paper uses the product space methodology to gain new perspectives on the relationship between economic complexity and economic development, illustrated by case studies of Brazil and the Republic of Korea. It takes import data as an indicator of revealed comparative disadvantage to highlight the relevance of the local market. Product space networks for each decade between 1960 and 2000 are then presented, revealing the significant changes in …
Taxa de câmbio real, apoio financeiro e exportações no Brasil
Esse estudo avalia a relevância dos instrumentos de incentivo às exportações, Adiantamento de Contrato de Câmbio (ACC) e Pagamento Antecipado das Exportações (PAE), entre 2004 e 2011, no Brasil. Supondo que a rentabilidade das exportações e o estímulo para exportar dependem não somente do nível da taxa de câmbio real e da renda mundial, mas também das receitas financeiras provenientes dos instrumentos de incentivo às exportações, foram calculadas…
Complexidade produtiva e desenvolvimento econômico
Este artigo utiliza a metodologia da complexidade para avaliar a relação entre complexidade econômica e desenvolvimento em quatro países da América Latina: Argentina, Brasil, Chile e México. O artigo mostra que, com a exceção do México (devido às indústrias maquiladoras), os países permaneceram majoritariamente agroexportadores, com aumento da competitividade apenas no setor primário e perda de competitividade nos setores de maior complexidade na…
When development meets culture
The article assesses the work of Celso Furtado (1920-2004) in the 1970s, an ambitious attempt to redefine the field of development economics. Furtado's work has recently been revisited by several authors in the history of economic thought. This text explores Furtado's response to the perceived failure of development theory to explain the reality of underdeveloped nations in the late 1970s. Expanding the scope of analysis and assigning culture a p…
Homenagem a Rodrigo Ferreira Simões
Homenagem a Rodrigo Ferreira Simões
Instrumentos de apoio às exportações e taxas múltiplasde câmbio no Brasil
O objetivo deste artigo é apresentar uma metodologia de cálculo do impacto das políticas de promoção das exportações sobre as taxas de câmbio reais setoriais no Brasil. Há, no País, instrumentos de promoção das exportações que ensejam ganhos fiscais e financeiros aos exportadores. Tais instrumentos podem ser compreendidos como mecanismos de alteração da taxa de câmbio real com a qual o exportador opera efetivamente. Para medir essa alteração, são…
Global interactions between firms and universities
This paper investigates interactions between firms and universities in a global context. The point of departure is a review of the ever-evolving literature on innovation. Three major strands of the literature can be identified: interactions between firms and universities, transnational corporations and their global reach, and more recently, global innovation networks (GINs). These strands have intersections that provide a starting point for a the…
Building capabilities through global innovation networks
Internationalization of R&D towards developing countries has created innovation network configurations that are truly global. These global innovation networks (GINs) are set up in developing countries for technological or market reasons. Sometimes firms in a country are integrated for market reasons, and are responsible only for the adaptation of products for local conditions, but over time, the very fact of being part of a GIN increases their te…
When development meets culture
The article assesses the work of Celso Furtado (1920-2004) in the 1970s, an ambitious attempt to redefine the field of development economics. Furtado's work has recently been revisited by several authors in the history of economic thought. This text explores Furtado's response to the perceived failure of development theory to explain the reality of underdeveloped nations in the late 1970s. Expanding the scope of analysis and assigning culture a p…
Related industries, economic complexity, and regional diversification
This paper contributes to the literature on economic relatedness and diversification in Brazil. It uses firm-level, occupational data to estimate the relationship between regions’ diversification, the degree of relatedness, and economic complexity indexes. Given that the current literature often focuses on a single variable, a new relatedness measure is introduced. It includes three new relatedness dimensions. The co-occupation captures the degre…
The great divide
This paper uses the product space methodology to gain new perspectives on the relationship between economic complexity and economic development, illustrated by case studies of Brazil and the Republic of Korea. It takes import data as an indicator of revealed comparative disadvantage to highlight the relevance of the local market. Product space networks for each decade between 1960 and 2000 are then presented, revealing the significant changes in …
Building capabilities through global innovation networks
Internationalization of R&D towards developing countries has created innovation network configurations that are truly global. These global innovation networks (GINs) are set up in developing countries for technological or market reasons. Sometimes firms in a country are integrated for market reasons, and are responsible only for the adaptation of products for local conditions, but over time, the very fact of being part of a GIN increases their te…
Building capabilities through global innovation networks
Internationalization of R&D towards developing countries has created innovation network configurations that are truly global. These global innovation networks (GINs) are set up in developing countries for technological or market reasons. Sometimes firms in a country are integrated for market reasons, and are responsible only for the adaptation of products for local conditions, but over time, the very fact of being part of a GIN increases their te…
Global interactions between firms and universities
This paper investigates interactions between firms and universities in a global context. The point of departure is a review of the ever-evolving literature on innovation. Three major strands of the literature can be identified: interactions between firms and universities, transnational corporations and their global reach, and more recently, global innovation networks (GINs). These strands have intersections that provide a starting point for a the…
Instrumentos de apoio às exportações e taxas múltiplasde câmbio no Brasil
O objetivo deste artigo é apresentar uma metodologia de cálculo do impacto das políticas de promoção das exportações sobre as taxas de câmbio reais setoriais no Brasil. Há, no País, instrumentos de promoção das exportações que ensejam ganhos fiscais e financeiros aos exportadores. Tais instrumentos podem ser compreendidos como mecanismos de alteração da taxa de câmbio real com a qual o exportador opera efetivamente. Para medir essa alteração, são…
Homenagem a Rodrigo Ferreira Simões
Homenagem a Rodrigo Ferreira Simões
When development meets culture
The article assesses the work of Celso Furtado (1920-2004) in the 1970s, an ambitious attempt to redefine the field of development economics. Furtado's work has recently been revisited by several authors in the history of economic thought. This text explores Furtado's response to the perceived failure of development theory to explain the reality of underdeveloped nations in the late 1970s. Expanding the scope of analysis and assigning culture a p…
Complexidade produtiva e desenvolvimento econômico
Este artigo utiliza a metodologia da complexidade para avaliar a relação entre complexidade econômica e desenvolvimento em quatro países da América Latina: Argentina, Brasil, Chile e México. O artigo mostra que, com a exceção do México (devido às indústrias maquiladoras), os países permaneceram majoritariamente agroexportadores, com aumento da competitividade apenas no setor primário e perda de competitividade nos setores de maior complexidade na…
The great divide
This paper uses the product space methodology to gain new perspectives on the relationship between economic complexity and economic development, illustrated by case studies of Brazil and the Republic of Korea. It takes import data as an indicator of revealed comparative disadvantage to highlight the relevance of the local market. Product space networks for each decade between 1960 and 2000 are then presented, revealing the significant changes in …
Taxa de câmbio real, apoio financeiro e exportações no Brasil
Esse estudo avalia a relevância dos instrumentos de incentivo às exportações, Adiantamento de Contrato de Câmbio (ACC) e Pagamento Antecipado das Exportações (PAE), entre 2004 e 2011, no Brasil. Supondo que a rentabilidade das exportações e o estímulo para exportar dependem não somente do nível da taxa de câmbio real e da renda mundial, mas também das receitas financeiras provenientes dos instrumentos de incentivo às exportações, foram calculadas…
Brazilian industry and knowledge absorption
Technological composition and productive diversification are distinguishing features of countries’ long-term growth trajectories. Investing in research and development (R&D), infrastructure and technology is a possible alternative for developing countries looking to accelerate their growth trajectory. In the case of Brazil, the production structure must be modified and productivity increased, by endogenizing technological advances, in order to na…
Growth, Distribution, and External Constraints
The purpose of this research is to analyze whether the Brazilian economy behaved under a wage-led or profit-led regime between 1960 and 2011, considering a Post-Kaleckian model in a context of external constraints. The time span is limited by data availability (i.e., 2011). To answer the question of whether the Brazilian economy works under a wage-led or profit-led regime, we propose a simple Post-Kaleckian model. The model suggests that a profit…
Introdução à Economia do Subdesenvolvimento
Este artigo foi originalmente publicado como introdução à nova edição revisada em português da obra clássica editada por A. N. Agarwala e S. P. Singh, A Economia do Subdesenvolvimento (Agarwala e Singh, 2010). O livro faz parte da série Desenvolvimento e Política Pública, publicada pelo Centro Internacional Celso Furtado de Políticas para o Desenvolvimento. Ao longo do tempo, a introdução à nova edição se tornou uma importante referência na liter…
Distribution and Productivity Growth
The paper investigates whether productivity growth is affected by the rate of growth of income and by that of employment for a representative sample of Latin American countries from the 1980s to the early 2010s. Having post-Kaleckian models as background, the paper empirically assesses the relationship between these variables, which are believed to be behind the underdeveloped trap, low productivity growth, high income concentration and low-incom…
Related industries, economic complexity, and regional diversification
This paper contributes to the literature on economic relatedness and diversification in Brazil. It uses firm-level, occupational data to estimate the relationship between regions’ diversification, the degree of relatedness, and economic complexity indexes. Given that the current literature often focuses on a single variable, a new relatedness measure is introduced. It includes three new relatedness dimensions. The co-occupation captures the degre…
Agricultural economic complexity and regional inequalities
The paper presents an original application of economic complexity to the agricultural sector aiming to determine its suitability to measure and depict regional structural inequalities across Brazilian regions. Using census data, we calculate agricultural complexity indexes for products (PCI-Agro) and regions (ECI-Agro) and the agricultural product space. We show that higher PCI-Agro is associated with higher levels of productivity, education, inc…
Institutional Duality
Economics (8 works) · Economic Theory and Policy (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Economic and Technological Innovation (5 works) · Economic geography (5 works) · Economic Growth and Productivity (5 works) · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Regional science (5 works)