nurture its own infant computer industry. This industry never matured; the technological gap between Brazil and the rest of the world actually widened, while the protected industries merely copied low-end foreign computers and sold them at inflated prices.

According to Delphine Pouchain, Jérôme Ballet, Julien Devisme, and Catherine Duchêne in their book Économie des inégalités (2020), the protectionist measures adopted by many Latin American countries during the Great Depression