WI: Brazil industrialised?

I was thinking about the Brazilian imperial family being exiled in the 1880s.

But what if Dom Pedro II decided to modernise Brazil to make it into a regional great power in a Brazilian Meiji and thus hold on to power?

Would we be seeing brazil reacing German or US industrial capacity by 1900
 
I was thinking about the Brazilian imperial family being exiled in the 1880s.

But what if Dom Pedro II decided to modernise Brazil to make it into a regional great power in a Brazilian Meiji and thus hold on to power?

Would we be seeing brazil reacing German or US industrial capacity by 1900

You need a much earlier POD, with an earlier abolition of slavery and immigration. Brazil simply didn't have the resources and the internal market necessary to create a massive industrialization. Also, the economy was completely turned to exports of agricultural products. The country was living the boom of coffee, and basically controlled the commerce of rubber by then. There was no incentive to industrialize.
 
I think i read somewhere of 500% growth rates and the like during this time (im probably wrong)- is it possible for the Brazilian economy to rocket up further? :confused:

I don't have the numbers here at work, but the growth was very high indeed. It hardly could become a "Meiji", but no Tripple Alliance War would help a lot, without the external debts it created.
 
If the sugar money were utilised for industrialisation(pre-cofee)combined with an early end of slavery it might be doable.Altough i do not believe our politicians were that farsighted:(
 
Perhaps a total wank of the Jesuit mission system, which as I understand it made each mission essentially self sufficient. Perhaps all of Brazil is donated to the religious order so that the King of Portugal could focus on dominating Africa and India. The Jesuits apparently were excellent managers of their lands and supported manufacturing. I have no idea why, but they did.

Consider Puritan World except in Brazil.
 
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