Brazil, China and South Korea: structural transformation and catching-up in the XX and XXI centuries

Abstract

This reserach has the purpose to understand the determinants that constitute the process of "cacthing-up" of China and South Korea, which extends from the second half of the 20th century to the 21st century, and then, compare to the reasons why brazilian economy passed trough a process of "catching up" but, in sequence, passed trough a "falling behind", at the end of the 20th century to the beginning of the 21st century.