Steel, Trade, and Development: A Comparative Advantage Analysis With Special Reference to the Case of Brazil

This work describes the diffusion process of the steel industry in the Periphery of the industrialized world--particularly, in Brazil. The current crisis of the world steel industry is analyzed in Chapter I from the standpoint of the economic forces that have been gradually shifting comparative advantage in steel production in favor of less developed countries (LDCs) in the post-World War II era. The basic research question is whether Brazil, one of the leading steel producers in the Periphery, had already achieved comparative advantage in large scale steel production by the late 1970s.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Economics

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Braga, Carlos Alberto Primo

• Economics, General

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8502080

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/77433