Historico da economia brasileira

A brief historical analysis of the Brazilian economy

It is undeniable that the political contexts, cultural, social and popular define the direction of the economy. They are determinants factors of the economic growth and development as well as responsible for the policies of economic relations with other countries and therefore being influenced by them. For a long time, due to European colonization and its sovereignty over the country we live in a political submission and a weakening economy of the nation on remittances from our wealth to Portugal. With the country's independence, the economic landscape undergoes slow changes in power relations that characterize a social inequality and guarantees the monopoly of capital to a minority.
The dominant ideology that we face nowadays has no interest in economic development but in economic growth. It is important to mention that the resignation of the poor did not establish the difference between economic growth and development. Economic growth is commonly measured by the change in Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which is the amount of the wealth produced by a country in a given period of time. The development is related to the peripheral center relationship, the diversification of the industrial system and the homogenization of consumption patterns.
Underdevelopment is thus characterized by the subordination of the country in the international division of labor, lack of sovereignty and the ability to form internal decision-making centers and the heterogeneity of consumption patterns. (Celso Furtado)
To explain the development of this underdeveloped economy we can underline the main thought that sustained the theory towards development. From the beginning, was formed an economic vision politically engaged in the defense of industrialization, called developmentalism. The ideas of developmentalism was based in a sense that industrialization was the way of overcoming poverty and underdevelopment, a country could not