Dear Felix,
Among the many contributions to your topic, Celso Furtado's one is
certainly among the most significant
A good introduction is supplied by Mauro Boianovsky (Universidade de Brasilia)
A View From the Tropics: Celso Furtado and the Theory of Economic
Development in the 1950s
http://www.uclouvain.be/cps/ucl/doc/econ/documents/SEL_Boianovsky.pdf
Best,
Alain Alcouffe