The objective of this work is to analyze, through the theory of public policies, the Regional Plans for Regional Development developed by the Superintendencies of Development of the Northeast (Sudene), Development of the Amazonia (Sudam) and Development of the Midwest (Sudeco). Secondarily, we...

The current dynamics of sharing competences and financial resources exposes the need to remodel and refine intergovernmental relations through processes of coordination and cooperation in order to minimize asymmetries. It is in this context that public consortia have been standing out in the...

The object of this discussion text typology was developed with the purpose of classifying the Brazilian municipalities according your insertion scale in the process of urbanization. Has focused on changes in the relationships between the different parts of the territory, is under productive...

In this text for discussion, a synthesis of the trajectory of the line of research on the Regions of Influence of Brazilian Cities, developed by IBGE, whose content excels in the longevity, systematcity and timeliness of complex research that expresses the Brazilian urban network since the...

This text aims at a reflection on the configuration of cross-border arrangements, resulting from the advance of metropolization over the territory, its characteristics, and the difficulties they impose on the urban management process, due to constituting cities that break territorial borders of...

The Urban Network and Territory research, developing in the Directory of Studies and Regional, Urban and Environmental Policies (Dirur) of the Ipea, comes following the activities focused on dynamic analysis, characterization and prospect about the urban agglomerations and the urban-regional...

In this paper, we use data from the National Household Survey (PNAD) for Brazil to investigate the dynamics of the urban wage premium and the relationship between the urban wage premium and inequality trends, and we find two main results. First, we find a decreasing urban wage premium over the...

The paper aims to evaluate the economic impact of the North Constitutional Regional Fund (FNO). The study uses different spatial scales to analyse the impact of FNO on gross national product (GDP) per capita growth between 2004 and 2010. In sum, the fixed effects panel data estimations show that...

This work aims to understand what implications the process of conservative modernization determined the structure of supply of credit costs and investment of the National Program for Strengthening Family Agriculture (PRONAF) for the period 2000-2010. Therefore, we adopted the descriptive...