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This paper describes the process of trade liberalization in the telecommunications industry implemented from the mid-1990s and examines how such a measure, which allowed foreign capital an important role in the control of operators, associated with the privatization program affected the...
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multilateralism and regionalism in Brazilian foreign policy is analyzed in order to identify and understand Brazil's trade negotiation … trade policy in Brazil in recent decades, explaining the adoption of a three-tracks negotiating strategy, which combines the …
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analyze the geopolitical importance of oil, nuclear and ethanol industries evolution in Brazil, highlighting trends and …
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The impacts of the exploration and production of large oil and gas reserves in a national economy are controversial. Several countries have shown a lack of capacity to develop based on these resources, while others achieve success. One important part of this equation are the local content rules...
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In this paper, we use data from the National Household Survey (PNAD) for Brazil to investigate the dynamics of the … finding suggests that the falling urban wage premium has contributed to the reduction in inequality observed in Brazil in the …
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The aim of this work is to discuss the recent path followed by the indicators of productivity in Brazil based upon the … in Brazil can only be obtained if the country reaches higher rates of growth of the labor productivity in the future … results obtained in previous works about the total factor productivity (TFP) in Brazil. We argue that the results are highly …
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productivity, specialization and income concentration in agriculture are analyzed. The structural heterogeneity can be evidenced …
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, does not mean that Brazil is close to the rate of U.S. productivity, because the productive structure is particular in each … agricultural production at both the production and productivity. The United States are characterized as highlighted in the … heterogeneity (HE) in the agricultural sector between Brazil and the United States by analyzing the behavior of the gap over time …
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This paper focuses on the use of imported inputs and on the importance of export revenues to Brazilian manufacturing firms and points out the implications of these results from the viewpoint of the insertion of the Brazilian industry in global value chains. It is based on information from the...
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