Estratégia de desenvolvimento e as três frentes de expans？o no Brasil: um desenho conceitual

the article aims at helping to provide a conceptual framework for the brazilian debate on economic development strategies. it designs a strategy on the basis of the idea of the existence of three demand-led "growth fronts," or three "engines of investment": mass consumption, natural resources and infrastructure. the article stresses the relevance of putting into action two "turbo-chargers" of these three engines of investment; namely technological innovation and the recuperation of traditional productive chains. finally, the author argues that this formula can be a viable long term pattern of economic growth, analogous to that which occurred in the past as a result of industrialization.