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This paper attempts to analyze the process of deindustrialization under a regional aspect. The loss of relevance of the manufacturing sector, as measured by percentage of GDP or total employment, is not neutral in spatial terms. Using the Rais database at the geographical level of micro regions,...
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This paper estimates the local employment multiplier for Brazil (2000-2010). The methodology is based on Moretti (2010) and Moretti and Thulin (2012) who estimated these multipliers for the U.S. and Sweden. We have estimated the impacts of changes in employment in the tradables sectors on the...
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Interstate migration in Brazil represents almost 40% of total internal migration. This paper investigates the economic causes of interstate migration flow. We apply Crozet's model the interaction of increasing returns and transportation cost on the regional dynamics and migration flow in Brazil....
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Historically consolidated as the centre of the Brazilian industrialization process, the State of São Paulo, and particularly its metropolitan homonymous region, observed a relative loss of participation in the industrial product from the 1970s. Factors such as the diseconomies of agglomeration...
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Evaluation is a pillar of results-oriented public management, as necessary input to the decision making process, greater transparency in government actions, control the use of public resources and accountability to society. The evaluation of environmental policies is a relatively new field and...
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procurement, competition, environment and labour issues - all qualified as new topics to the international negotiations agenda on …
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decades, there has been a proliferation of such agreements, which made the environment the second area with the largest number … Conference on Environment and Development (Rio-92): the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Convention on …
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risks to public health, occupational health or the environment, besides those already observed in products bought in the …
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The research evaluates Brazilian alignment to the OECD normative on the environment and climate change. It has three … parts. The first describes the trajectory of the accession criteria, indicating how environment and climate change have come … Brazilian advances in aligning with the Committee of Environment Policy, reaffirming and updating the conclusions presented by …
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Life cycle analysis (LCA) has been used worldwide to guide innovation improving performance actions of and in production systems directed to the environmental sustainability. However, even with the wide dissemination of LCA internationally, the tool is still not very well known and applied in...
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