This paper examines how Brazilian prosecutors promote compliance with labor and environmental laws while preserving or even enhancing the competitiveness of local firms. In the cases analyzed, prosecutors realize that the bottlenecks that prevent compliance are often located outside the firm and...

This paper addresses the following question: how can we reconcile workers` rights and social protection with firms` competitiveness and productivity? In Latin America, there is an intense debate about the perverseness of the labor law (claimed to be harmful both to workers and to firms) and, in...

In most developing countries, small and medium firms in the informal sector have grown steadily over the last decade as a consequence of regulation and increasing international competition. In these places, the great challenge for policymakers and economic-development practitioners today is how...

This Discussion Paper analyzes the implementation of underground networks and their impacts on the energy and telecommunications sectors, through the main benefits, lessons learned regarding international benchmarking and an economic-financial analysis. The implementation of underground...

This discussion paper seeks to contribute to the Brazilian urban development debate by analyzing the recent legislation that institutes the Casa Verde Amarela social housing program (CVA). Created in 2020, CVA arose from a provisory executive order (MP 996, of August 25) reformed on January 12,...

This work is divided into two complementary parts. In the first part, we develop a partial equilibrium model, through which it is possible to analyze the influence of tariff modicity and the illegal occupation of poles on four agents: energy distributors, telecommunications operators, and energy...

This work proposes to examine the current scenario of environmental licensing procedures in Brazil, from a theoretical approach (legal, economic and regulatory) concerning the theme. Keeping in mind that the discussions regarding the environmental licensing procedure continue to guide the debate...

Federal Law No. 13.874/2019, known as the Economic Freedom Act, has strong effects on regulatory policies, including environmental regulation. This work aims to identify the provisions of the Economic Freedom Act that may affect the creation and application of environmental standards, as well as...

This work analyzes the current scenario of maturity and institutionalization of the Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) within the scope of federal environmental regulatory bodies, namely, the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MMA), the National Council for the Environment (Conana), the...

This study analyses the tariff protection structure that Brazil imposes on intermediate goods, examining its recent development and comparing it with that of selected developing countries, in order to assess whether or not Brazilian protection on this type of products is more restrictive than in...