The present work aims to analyze consolidated changes and still pending change proposals to the Constitutional Financing Funds in the Federal Congress. The issue at stake that we seek to emphasize is the close dispute over funds' resources, as we believe that they are important instruments for...

This paper discusses the differences between the Annual Continuous PNAD and the recently discontinued Annual PNAD, both surveys developed by IBGE; the relevant distinctions on the social security dimension between the two surveys; the guidelines and the official methodology adopted for measuring...

This study presents results obtained from interviews took by a team of researchers from a chosen group of public servants in four Brazilian state governments (Sergipe, Goiás, Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina) during the year of 2013. Our aim was to question such policy makers about...

This article analyze the transport management and the urban mobility in Brazilian metropolitan areas. The transportation and mobility are considered as a public service of common interest on metropolitan arrangements. The paper conducts an analysis of some case studies in order to contribute to...

This paper aims at contributing to the debate on the socioeconomic (and constitutional) relevance of the changes in the distribution of oil royalties prescribed at the Law 12.734/2012, whose effects are currently suspended by an injunction granted by the Supreme Court. The research shows that...

Based on the principles of universality and equality and the guideline of integrality, the Brazilian Public Healthcare System, called Unified Health System (SUS), was constituted as a regionalized and hierarchical services network. There is the recognizing of interdependence between...

A new state debt cycle occurred mainly through external and contracted credit operations with federal banks from 2008, after a long period with few loans and debt stock fall. It is argued that exogenous macroeconomic factors were essential in the downward trend of the debt in the early 2000s,...