Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/220106 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper No. 17
Publisher: 
Institute for Applied Economic Research (ipea), Brasília
Abstract: 
This paper provides mathematically consistent calculations of the forward, backward, and total linkages in the Brazilian economy in 1975. Our results reveal, among other things, that: 1) high linkages cannot be exclusively associated with modern industrial sectors; 2) none of our linkage measures have any consistent relationship with domestic resource cost, our measure of efficiency; 3) there are some doubts on the proposition that Brazilian economic growth has been linkage-intensive; and 4) there are some important differences between "key" sectors from the standpoint of backward and forward linkages.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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