Topic 2: Brazil in the Globalization Era - Core Topic

2.1 ORGANIZATION OF THE MODERN BRAZILIAN ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES

• Technical, scientific, and informational resources

• Agriculture and livestock (“agropecuária”): development and structure

• Industry: structure of the industrial sector, location and growth of basic and modern industry (Concentration and decentralization)

• Trade and Services: The emergency of a modern service sector, the advance of urbanization since 1945, and the expansion of the informal economy

2.2 THE CURRENT ROLE OF THE BRAZILIAN STATE IN ECONOMIC POLICY AND ITS SPATIAL DIMENSIONS

• From the old world order to the new order

• Brazil and multilateral organizations

• Neo-liberalism and policies on industrialization

• Alternative approaches to development (the concept, practice and evaluation of sustainable development)