Infrastructure and productivity in Brazil. This article analyses the relationship between infrastructure and total … factor productivity (TFP) in Brazil during the second half of the twenty century. Public capital is used as a proxy for … infrastructure capital. The hypothesis to be tested is that an increase in infrastructure - more than than a rise in the private …

The article discusses the politics of telecommunications' privatization policies in Brazil. In the first part …, telecommunications sector's conditions previous to privatization, the privatization policy and its results are outlined. In the second … part, the ideas about the economic role of the state underlying the debate about privatization of state owned enterprises …

This paper discusses the possible privatization of Petrobras. It is argued that despite the economic reasons that … contribute to the discussion of this proposal, through the organization of the arguments related to the privatization - the "YPF …