Análise do desenvolvimento da indústria brasileira no período de 1990 a 2010 : um estudo sobre o setor calçadista.

Abstract

The present work had as its objective to identify and to describe if the process of Brazilian deindustrialization occurred in the period from 1990 to 2010. The decrease in the participation of the industry in the Brazilian GDP and a high participation of the primary sector in the Brazilian exports have both generated strong arguments and studies in the academic environment. From one standpoint, some authors argue that Brazil is undergoing an early deindustrialization process, and on the other hand, other authors see this decline in the share of industry in GDP as a natural way of economic development. Those researchers who consider deindustrialization in Brazil too early and also harmful to the economy, report that it started in the 1990s, with the opening of the commercial and financial market. The footwear sector, which was one of the first transformation industries to develop in Brazil, plays a fundamental role in the Brazilian industrial context and it was also used for analysis. This sector was one of the most affected by the opening of the commercial financial market, and had to make a major industrial restructuring to be able to remain in the competitive market that was established in the 1990s. A case study was used in this work, aiming to investigate how deindustrialization process took place in Brazil from 1990 to 2010. The results analysis allowed the visualization of the industry's ability to maintain its guidelines for later reestablishment in the market. It was also possible to verify a gradual gain of the primary sector in the Brazilian exports. Therefore, the study does not identify invariable results that confirm the existence of a Brazilian deindustrialization process in the investigated period.