The picture of the Brazilian pulp and paper sector presented in this section is useful to qualify the preliminary hypotheses pointed out above based on the general review of the literature on FDI sustainable development impacts. The Brazilian pulp and paper sector is presently composed by 220 firms widely located in 16 Brazilian states. To give an idea about this sector importance for the Brazilian economy, in 2005: this sector directly employed workers; it produced millions tons of pulp and millions tons of paper, corresponding to of the GDP. It is a sector characterized by.
