The article analyzes the different approaches to "developmentalism", emphasizing its theoretical origins, and highlighting them as the source of different economic policy propositions. The paper then takes the side of one of the approaches, based on theoretical and empirical articles on different growth regimes in Brazil, such as export-led, demand-led, debt-led, profit-led and wage-led.
Developmentalism; New developmentalism; Social developmentalism; Economic heterodoxies; State