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Contrary to the famous saying, "In Brazil, even the past is uncertain", we can demonstrate that the future, at least in the short term, is quite predictable. This Discussion Paper presents the framework for agenda-setting anticipation through methodologies of actor mapping and agenda tracking,...
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Contrary to the famous saying, "In Brazil, even the past is uncertain", we can demonstrate that the future, at least in the short term, is quite predictable. This Discussion Paper presents the framework for agenda-setting anticipation through methodologies of actor mapping and agenda tracking,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015051682
The aim of this discussion is to contribute to the institutionalization of public policies in the area of human rights, specifically with regard to the governance of the use of evidence in this area. The aim is to indirectly support the strengthening of the analytical capacity of the Brazilian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015337490
The aim of this discussion is to contribute to the institutionalization of public policies in the area of human rights, specifically with regard to the governance of the use of evidence in this area. The aim is to indirectly support the strengthening of the analytical capacity of the Brazilian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015361284
This paper tracks progress toward municipal sustainability at the main cities of the Piracicaba River Basin. The sustainability indexes system combines measures of environmental quality, human wellbeing, institutional capacity and anthropogenic pressure. The river and it basin are seen as a life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004968753
This article presents methodology for the construction of indices of local sustainability, applied to the cities of the Piracicaba River Basin (Minas Gerais). The proposed methodology combines measures of quality of the microregional environmental system; the quality of life in urban areas; the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005685221
This paper aims to review selected texts by Hausman and McPerson, Amartya Sen and Amartya Sen and Anand on inequality and poverty. In terms of inequality, it was synthetically found the need to specify the types of spaces under study, such as resource inequality, skills, etc. and the moral issue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015266013
This paper investigates poverty dynamics in Brazil, as the frequency and pattern of movements into and out of poverty have significant implications for our understanding of stratification and social mobility processes, as well as for the design of public policies. Our analysis uses microdata...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015054187
This paper investigates poverty dynamics in Brazil, as the frequency and pattern of movements into and out of poverty have significant implications for our understanding of stratification and social mobility processes, as well as for the design of public policies. Our analysis uses microdata...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015051710
This paper proposes that, in spite of some fundamental invariant aspects, the way of exposition of the Minsky's work central concept - the so called Financial Instability Hypothesis - changed significantly throughout his academic productive period; furthermore it assesses the traditional way this...
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