Recentes debates na literatura sobre a identificacao e o papel de setores-chave em nivel nacional e regional destacam as dificuldades de um consenso com respeito a terminologia, ao metodo de medicao e a interpretacao economica a serem usados. Neste trabalho, novas perspectivas sao apresentadas...

In this paper, two literatures that have explored the structure of economies are brought together. In the first case, the approaches to key sector identification (initially associated with Hirschman and Rasmussen) that were modified by Cella, Clements and Rossi and Guilhoto et al. to reveal what...