The idea that environmental and trade policies should be formulated in an integrated framework has been gaining momentum so that to ensure the integrity and consistency of climate change negotiations. In a complementary way to the negotiations within the United Nations Framework Convention for...

The paper analyses industrial competitiveness policies adopted in Brazil from 1995 to 2000 and compares them to previous economic measures and instruments related to the theme. A number of changes over previous policies were identified, such as: a) the agenda of competitiveness policies is...

This work analyses some indicators of international commerce of agricultural during the period of 1990 to 2001. It represents a sintesis of a research that has made in Ipea, with the purpose of to estimate indicators of international commerce of agriculture. The issues of this research...

This paper investigates the following questions: what were the effects of the 1990s economic reforms on employment, wages, income inequality indicators and international competitiveness? Did economic reforms cause major or minor effects on the economy? Who were the gainers and the losers of the...