The work shows that in the 90s the growth of activities linked to the informal economy has become a lasting feature of Brazilian society; this fact is empirically verified for the main metropolitan regions. Analysing the case of street peddlers, the trend of the Rio de Janeiro economy towards a...

The objective of the present paper is to analyze the Trade Defence Policy of the BICs, in the last 15 years, with emphasis to similarities and contrasts. The paper starts with the exam of the main issues of trade defence regulation as established in the GATT and the WTO. Then it moves to the...