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The theory 'corporate social responsibility' (CSR) is characterized in the paper. The paper expresses the authors …' opinion, that CSR as a mere proclamation of necessity of the firms' ethic behavior does not enforce this into praxis. The … internal economic motivation to CSR it is the necessary condition to firms to invest in CSR. The conditions for such motivation …
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In this paper we examine from a sectoral point of view the main trends of investment in the Brazilian economy in the 2000s and its relation to value added and to imports and exports coefficients. It is argued for the existence of three expansion fronts: infrastructure, natural resources and mass...
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The auto industry, since the 1960s, showed substantial growth in South Korea causing the country at the end of the 1980s was among the world's leading manufacturers of automobiles. In the early 1990s, associated with the opening up of the economy held by the Korean government, the auto industry...
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The extension of the mineral economy's value-chain is a relevant subject for the Brazilian debate on public policies for economic growth, but the numbers and definitions on the topic are still imprecise and, therefore, remain under construction. At first, based on the official classification of...
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This paper provides historical perspectives on regional economic inequalities in Brazil. It analyzes the changes in the spatial concentration of economic activities based upon data on the municipal distribution of the labor force by occupation from the Censuses of 1872 and 1920. The New Economic...
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This paper aims to evaluate the impact of a tax incentive program targeted to small business (SIMPLES) on employment growth. The evaluation is conducted for two distinct periods, namely 1997 when the program was first implemented and 1999 when the eligibility rule was modified in order to...
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Recent studies have called attention that China may limit the export diversification and technological upgrading of … of Brazilian exports by China in the markets of South American countries, Mexico, the United States, European Union and … to estimate the loss of Brazil and China coincident exports in the markets selected. The study shows that the losses …
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The article focuses on the recovery of industrial policy in China, India and Brazil from late twentieth century on …
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maritime situation of China, and the Chinese military build-up from the early 1990s onwards. From the data collected, it … indicates the aspects that make China a country with an unfavorable maritime situation. It also indicates the main features of … China's military modernization (particularly in the Navy) and of the maritime territorial disputes in East Asia. It follows …
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