Recursos naturais e desenvolvimento econômico: uma revisão do debate teórico

• Ano de defesa: 2012
• Autor(a) principal: Freitas Junior, Gerson Alves de
• Orientador(a): Carvalho, Carlos Eduardo Ferreira de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Economia Política
• Departamento: Economia
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Recursos naturais; Commodities; Deterioração dos termos de troca; Prebisch-Singer; América Latina; Doença holandesa
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Natural resources; Commodities; Deteriorating in terms of trade; Prebisch-Singer; Latin America; Dutch disease
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ECONOMIA
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/9197

The aim of this work is to revisit the debate surrounding the role of natural resources in economic development. This is an exploratory essay, which examines theses and stylized facts on the topic especially those that establish a negative relationship between natural resource endowment and economic growth in light of structural changes in the global economy and the rise in international primary product prices in the last decade. Its first conclusion is that there isn t any conclusive literary evidence of the so-called "resource curse," although some of the assumptions associated with it, such as the existence of a secular trend of decline in terms of the primary goods trade, have been proven true in the past century although, perhaps, not in the 21st century so far. The technical and economic characteristics of the current globalization process suggest, on the other hand, an increasing trend of dynamic natural resource markets, which may represent a window of opportunity for commodity-rich economies