CADEIAS PRODUTIVAS E OPORTUNIDADES DE INVESTIMENTO NO NORDESTE BRASILEIRO

Abstract

The article debates the relationship between the concept of productive chains and some proposals of disequilibrium growth theory and presents the results of a research project on productive chains and investment opportunities in Brazil's Northeast Region. In the first part, the article shows how the concept of productive chain may be useful to study the dynamics of economic growth. The following sections show how the concept of productive chain was applied to study investment opportunities in one of Brazil's poorest regions. The concept of productive chain is used to highlight specific characteristics of the industrial structure of the Northeast region. A taxonomy of investment opportunities is proposed and, at the end, the article focuses on problems of investment coordination in productive chains.