This paper analyses the impact of increases in the price of two primary products - coffee and cocoa - on the growth of the national and regional economies in Brazil. It aims at explaining the factors that have determined salutary effects in the coffee region and negligible effects in the cocoa...

The European debate on the 2014/2020 cohesion policy has evolved around strategy for the last two years (July 2007 through December 2009). Very likely, bargaining over budgetary resources for policies and Member States will dominate the discussion in the next two years. It is therefore important...

No presente artigo, é feita uma aplicação de alguns instrumentos de análise da economia regional às NUT III da Região do Norte com o objectivo de fazer uma reflexão sobre a dinâmica da estrutura produtiva daqueles territórios no período compreendido entre 1986 e 1998, recorrendo-se,...