The paper discusses the main challenges and opportunities for attracting both private domestic and foreign capital to foster the growth of concessions projects in the infrastructure sector, and proposes solutions from the Brazilian recent experience and other emerging economies. Given the...

Regardless of their scope and nature, Public policies, government programs, or strategies for the modernization of the State involve the performance of public officials as one of their fundamental variables. Their motivations, perceptions, and adherence to specific practices and objectives are...

The Brazilian public administration has adopted risk management as a good governance practice. Its implementation is mandatory for all bodies and entities of the Federal Executive Branch, with wide dissemination of regulations and risk management manuals covering other federal powers and levels....

This is the second publication in a series of three interrelated discussion papers produced by Ipea on the theme of relevance and implementation of risk management (RM). The series began with the title Competência Versus Incerteza: atitudes pessoais e percepção sobre gestão de riscos no...

In the last few years, many Brazilian firms have been strongly interested in programs of compliance as well as in programs of integrity. These matters are also relevant to government offices of inspection and control of public sector activities as well as to offices of regulation of economic...