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Articles • Rev. Bras. Econ. 68 (3) • Jul-Sep 2014 • https://doi.org/10.1590/S0034-71402014000300002   copy

The Regional Economic Structure of Brazil in 1959: An Overview Based on an Interstate Input-Output Matrix* * The authors would like to thank the Biblioteca da Unidade de São Paulo do Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística and its solicitous librarians for providing essential material for this research. We also thank André Luis Squarize Chagas, Esther Dweck, Fernando Salgueiro Perobelli and an anonymous referee for valuable comments and/or bibliographical references. During the preparation of the manuscript, both authors were scholarship holders of the CNPq - Brazil.

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This paper aims to describe the regional configuration of Brazil's productive structure in 1959 through the estimation of an interstate input-output matrix. The estimated matrix is the oldest of its kind for Brazil and is made available to other researchers. Hence, it can be an important tool for the study of the regional productive structure at a historical moment in which the regional question appeared as a central national issue. In this paper we describe estimation procedures and data sources, and present some general characterization of the regional structure of the economy in 1959 through selected structural indicators.

Regional productive structure; Brazil; Input-output analysis

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