THREE ESSAYS ON THE DEVELOPOMENT OF BRAZILIAN AMAZON

Abstract

Although Brazil is the ninth world economy by 2018 – with a GDP of 2.14 trillion US dollars according to the International Monetary Fund - its growth resulted from a dependent economic development, and it is possible to distinguish three historical phases of the evolution as it occurred in Brazil: colonial phase, South-North conflict, subjection to the global market. The heterodox economic policies of the last ten years have failed to correct the path of dependence inherited from colonialism and perpetuated by major projects of national interest. So that the reduction of inequalities and the defeat of poverty remain distant objectives, despite the economic growth.