Interdependência estrutural entre a produção e a demanda no Mercosul

Resumo

This article characterizes, in Mercosur, the intersectorial relations
between the final demands and the production. For this: (a) it shows the
structure of the input-output model of Mercosur (1990) and;( b) it evaluates
the inducted production by the final demand. It was verified, in relative
terms, a bigger insertion of the Uruguayan and Chilean economy in the
international market in relation to the economies of Argentina and Brazil.
The coefficients of the inducted production, in general, suggests that the
increase of the final demand of the countries results in a greater increase
of the production in the domestic industries. The infra-structure of production
in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay the activities that stand out the most are the
industries of cattle raising and the primary resources; in Brazil, contrary to
those characteristics, the exportations are diversified, other industries
include stronger components of light and heavy secondary industries of
long scale. In occurrence with these f acts, the structure of the inter-regional
transactions, there exists inequalities on the beneficial effects that the
countries make good use of. Therefore, it concludes that the politics
performed to distribute and/or to manage in a better way the benefits of the
production among the countries must be based in products that are linked
to key-sectors.