The essay intends to analyze the competition policy in Brazil after twelve years of the Law n. 8.884/1994, which has effectively inaugurated it. Thus, it initiates with a historical approach, exposing the principal premises that guide this public policy exercise. Utilizing data from the...

The article presents an analysis of the relations between national state and human rights in Brazil between the years of 1968 and 1996. The purpose is to reconstruct the historical process of the incorporation of this theme as a state policy and to put into evidence the conditionings of the...

This chapter argues that notwithstanding the recent improvements, the Brazilian society has still much to do to strengthen its institutions and to enhance the quality of its democracy concerning the regulation of security and defense. It examines historical aspects pertaining civil-military...

This paper presents a critical assessment of income and profit taxation in Brazil. It discuss how tax cuts for capital income during the eighties and nineties, following mainstream policy recommendations, have constrained the redistributive role of the income tax. The analysis is based on...

This study aims to revisit the issue of the sustainability of public indebtedness in Brazil, investigating the evolution of gross debt of public sector, the relationship between its liabilities and assets of the public sector, the future implications of gross debt to net debt and to make...

This study aims to examine the sustainability of the Brazilian public indebtedness using different approaches. Based on the analysis of the conditioning factors of net debt of the public sector (DLSP) in the period 2002-2014, there seems to be a change in fiscal regime between 2011 and 2014...

This paper analyzes the production diversity among Brazilian agricultural family farms, using the DAP (declaration of Pronaf entitlement). The diversity is measured with a Simpson index, that goes from zero, for monocultures, to one. Production is considerably diversified in these types of...