Native Capital: Financial Institutions and Economic Development in São Paulo, Brazil, 1850-1920This book studies the development of banks and stock and bond exchanges in São Paulo, Brazil, during an era of rapid economic diversification. It assesses the contribution of these financial institutions to that diversification, and argues that they played an important role in São Paulo's urbanization and industrialization by the start of the twentieth century. It finds that government regulatory policy was important in limiting and shaping the activities of these institutions, but that pro-development policies did not always have their intended effects. This is the first book on São Paulo's famous industrialization to identify the strong relationship between financial institutions and São Paulo's economic modernization at the turn of the century. It is unique in Brazilian economic history, but contributes to a body of literature on financial systems and economic change in other parts of the world. |
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... demand proved to be strong , coffee plantations quickly ex- panded to satisfy it . Coffee was so well suited to the local conditions that by 1831 it had surpassed sugar as Brazil's principal export.2 Initially established in Rio de ...
... demand proved to be strong , coffee plantations quickly ex- panded to satisfy it . Coffee was so well suited to the local conditions that by 1831 it had surpassed sugar as Brazil's principal export.2 Initially established in Rio de ...
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... demand for Brazil's newest product , coffee . The convergence of these two events created a series of problems for an illiquid economy with few formal financial institutions , in which much of the nation's wealth was represented by the ...
... demand for Brazil's newest product , coffee . The convergence of these two events created a series of problems for an illiquid economy with few formal financial institutions , in which much of the nation's wealth was represented by the ...
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... demand made it immediately attractive to Paulista planters.47 The expansion of coffee stimulated the development of the São Paulo capital market by creating a new and large demand for capital to expand plantations and buy or hire ...
... demand made it immediately attractive to Paulista planters.47 The expansion of coffee stimulated the development of the São Paulo capital market by creating a new and large demand for capital to expand plantations and buy or hire ...
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Native Capital under the Empire | 24 |
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Brokers and Business Finance under the Empire | 56 |
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