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  • The side effects of a big push growth strategy: export incentives and primary education under military rule in Brazil, 1967–1985

  • Thomas H. Kang, Isabela Menetrier, Flavio Comim
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    08 October 2024, pp. 1-28
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  • During the military regime in Brazil (1964–1985), enrollment ratios in primary education grew substantially in the first decade under dictatorship, but stagnated in the mid-1970s. This paper shows that education spending might depend on the levels of centralisation in tax matters. Using panel data regressions and qualitative evidence, we argue that a massive big push industrialisation programme increased the pressure on external accounts, leading the government to intensify an export incentive policy based on tax subsidies that decreased the income of subnational governments. As a result, the capacity of funding mass education was compromised in the second half of the 1970s.