State owned enterprises and dynamic comparative advantages in the world petrochemical industry : the case of commodity olefins in Brazil

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1980

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Harvard Institute for International Development, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., US

Abstract

Examines why and how Brazil is likely to attain technological self-reliance in basic petrochemicals during the 1980s and the conditions that favour the successful Brazilian strategy. Looks at the important transformations that the world petrochemical industry is going to experience in the current decade. Includes a bibliography.

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Meeting: Research and Policy Workshop on Technology Problems for the Caribbean, 13 Nov.-10 Dec. 1983, Runaway Bay, JM
Also included as item no. 28, Module 10 of: Bibliography / Research and Policy Workshop on Technology Problems for the Caribbean, Runaway Bay, Jamaica, Nov. 13-Dec. 10, 1983

Keywords

PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY, TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE, BRAZIL, SELF RELIANCE, PUBLIC OWNERSHIP, INDUSTRIAL POLICY, TRENDS, FUTURE, TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, FRANCE

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