How to accelerate and scale Brazil’s economic growth?

Brazil faces slow and volatile economic growth, compounded by low productivity and structural challenges such as deindustrialization, weak competitiveness, and demographic change. In this paper, Jorge Arbache and Aldemir Drummond analyze the factors that constrain the country’s development and propose pathways to accelerate and scale economic growth. Drawing on the industrialization of comparative advantages and strategic integration into global value chains, the authors discuss how Brazil can build a more innovative, competitive, and sustainable model for the future.