The auto industry is an international oligopoly that has a long tradition of influencing trade negotiations and national policies. Due to the industry's size and production linkages, the investment decisions made by the assembly firms often generate economic consequences that can be easily...

After the sequence of structural adjustments decisions suggested by the IMF, Brazilian economy became wider opened, as the consequences from financial globalization were stronger than those from commercial globalization. Nevertheless, social and economical reality didn’t show much improvement....

This paper analyses the most important experiences with school accountability policy (SA) in Brazil. The analysis suggests that their impacts on the quality of education are not significant due to the fact that: (i) either it does not incorporate a system in which the school is responsible for...

Foreign direct investment and the performance of Brazilian exports. Brazil, in the 1990s, assumed a remarkable position as a host of foreign direct investment. It is worth mentioning that the service sector received the highest proportion of foreign investment. This market seeking strategy was...