Industrialization in the south-asian and brazilian periphery until the 1970s: the similarities to divergences

Abstract

The article discusses industrializations on the periphery of the capitalist system in the face of postwar economic expansion. An analysis of the insertion patterns and industrialization trajectories followed by the East Asian countries and Brazil between the 1940s and the 1970s is carried out under the hypothesis that regional geopolitical relations, in the context of the Cold War, the configuration of states and degree of financial autonomy that they had in the elaboration of industrializing projects were fundamental determinants for the countries of Southeast Asia to be more able to face the liberalizing pressures of the 1970s than Brazil and the Latin American countries.