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...

This paper analyzes the Brazilian growth pattern during the post-liberalization period, emphasizing the structural links between finance and productive capital accumulation. The results indicate a finance-led growth regime in the period 2004-2008, under a very specific financialization process....

This paper analyzes the Brazilian growth pattern during the post-liberalization period, emphasizing the structural links between finance and productive capital accumulation. The results indicate a finance-led growth regime in the period 2004-2008, under a very specific financialization process....

The Constitutional Funds were established by art. 159, item I, paragraph c of the Federal Constitution of 1988 with the objective of contributing to the "reduction of inequalities" existing between the peripheral regions of the North, Northeast and Center-West vis-à-vis the central regions of...

The Constitutional Funds were established by art. 159, item I, paragraph c of the Federal Constitution of 1988 with the objective of contributing to the "reduction of inequalities" existing between the peripheral regions of the North, Northeast and Center-West vis-à-vis the central regions of...

The Constitutional Funds were established by art. 159, item I, paragraph c of the Federal Constitution of 1988 with the objective of contributing to the "reduction of inequalities" existing between the peripheral regions of the North, Northeast and Center-West vis-à-vis the central regions of...