Economic History

The JK government modernized and industrialized Brazil but left a poor legacy for its successors.

Café Filho first adopted economic contraction, then expansion, and facilitated the importation of capital goods to Brazil.

This period was characterized by successive economic problems, by the inability to adopt contractionary policies, and by commercial protectionism.

The Dutra administration oscillated in economic policy: from liberalism with orthodoxy to protectionism with heterodoxy.

The Vargas Era began in the context of the Great Depression, but managed to promote intensive industrial growth in Brazil.

During the First Republic, Brazil experienced significant economic transformations but remained dependent on coffee exports.

From 1822 until 1889, Brazil’s economy was characterized by great regional diversity: agriculture, mining, and industries.

The economy of Colonial Brazil was characterized by the predominance of sugar and mining, along with some other less relevant activities.