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The paper summarizes and analyses the spatial organizations of US and their regional development policies. The first part describe the evolution of the US economy during the period 1800-2000, and the second part presents the regional policies and agencies that shape the regional development. The...
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The regional development in China in the period 1949-2000 has two stages. In the first one (1949-1978), the aim was to control the territory. During three decades the government encouraged the convergences of per capita income among regions, rural, and urban areas, the industry was...
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The high tax wedge on labor income and the cost for the economic sectors, especially industry, is a significant problem in the Brazilian economy. We use a computable general equilibrium model to project the effects of the exemption of the payroll tax on the economy, with different assumptions...
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The geographic concentration of firms has been successful recently in many ways: international competitiveness of these firms, regional income's growth, etc. The Italian industrial districts are the case with major relevance at the international literature. At Joinville there are a significant...
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The geographic concentration of firms has been successful recently in many ways: international competitiveness of these firms, regional income's growth, etc. The Italian industrial districts are the case with major relevance at the international literature. At the ABC paulista there are a...
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The article assesses the work of Celso Furtado (1920-2004) in the 1970s, when the author promotes an ambitious attempt to redefine the field of development economics. Furtado's works have recently been revisited by several authors, including in the field of history of economic thought. The text...
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The aim of this paper is to show that the level of the real exchange rate affects the rate of economic growth. More specifically, we extend the model developed by Araujo and Lima (2007) to derive a balance-of-payments equilibrium growth rate analogous to Thirlwall’s Law based on a Pasinettian...
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The main aim of this paper is to analyze the locational factors of urbanization in State of São Paulo (Brazil) between …
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Preference on Regional Development in Brazil. In the post-Keynesian literature, money is considered endogenous to the economic … panel across states in Brazil in order to test the impact of liquidity preference and other financial variables on Brazilian …
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some medical procedures followed during antenatal care in Brazil and India. Data are drawn from the 2006 Brazilian … utilisation and medical procedures in Brazil and India. Antenatal coverage is relatively much higher in Brazil and distributed … in overall coverage and extent of utilisation whereas in Brazil, despite high utilisation of care, there is still …
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