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Employment Survey (PME) from March of 2002 to May of 2007. PME is the only panel data which is available in Brazil to carry out …
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This paper aims to describe the ongoing process of regional convergence among Brazilian metropolitan areas and the rest of the country, examining its main reasons and highlighting its importance to the overall decline in income inequality. Our analysis shows that, since the early 1980's, per...
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economies. In Brazil, services correspond to more than 66% of the valued added in the economy. It is a value close to that … observed in richer nations. Notwithstanding, there are few economic studies about the services sector in Brazil, in the current … the industry is more pronounced in the European Union than in Brazil. On the other side, the productivity in the services …
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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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Brazilian Welfare Policy, in its basic protection dimension, is implemented by public structures called as Referencial Centers of Social Assistence (Cras), which work at the local level (municipalities), but are organized, coordinated, legislated and co-financed by the federal government. This...
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