The objective of this text is to present an overview of the trajectory of the infrastructure policies in Brazil in the recent period (2005-2013). In order to do so, it highlights the main efforts and advances towards the resumption of the role of the federal government in the sector, as well as...

BNDES has been working as public agent for the Brazilian State developing export financing policy. Observing post shipping financing policy, most disbursements for the period in analyses from 1998 to 2017 consists on a major direction to the United States counting almost US$ 17 billion over a...

This paper presents an exploratory analysis of the institutional arrangement of the Fund of Investment of Guarantee of the Time of Service (FI-FGTS, in Portuguese) with the main objective of assessing the institutional configuration and the operational performance of FI-FGTS. This instrument was...

This paper presents an exploratory analysis of the institutional arrangement of the Fund of Investment of Guarantee of the Time of Service (FI-FGTS, in Portuguese) with the main objective of assessing the institutional configuration and the operational performance of FI-FGTS. This instrument was...

BNDES has been working as public agent for the Brazilian State developing export financing policy. Observing post shipping financing policy, most disbursements for the period in analyses from 1998 to 2017 consists on a major direction to the United States counting almost US$ 17 billion over a...

The objective of this text is to present an overview of the trajectory of the infrastructure policies in Brazil in the recent period (2005-2013). In order to do so, it highlights the main efforts and advances towards the resumption of the role of the federal government in the sector, as well as...

This paper distinguishes how the source of lending affects gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in Brazilian municipalities between 2007 and 2016. A unique data set allows us to discriminate between the effects of lending operated by either private or public commercial banks, and loans...

This paper distinguishes how the source of lending affects gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in Brazilian municipalities between 2007 and 2016. A unique data set allows us to discriminate between the effects of lending operated by either private or public commercial banks, and loans...

In this paper we examine from a sectoral point of view the main trends of investment in the Brazilian economy in the 2000s and its relation to value added and to imports and exports coefficients. It is argued for the existence of three expansion fronts: infrastructure, natural resources and mass...

In this paper we examine from a sectoral point of view the main trends of investment in the Brazilian economy in the 2000s and its relation to value added and to imports and exports coefficients. It is argued for the existence of three expansion fronts: infrastructure, natural resources and mass...