This paper aims to present and analyze the functions performed by the Brazilian federal banks, in a Keynesian perspective, emphasizing its role: i) in promoting economic and regional development, by directing credit to specific sectors and regions, ii) the anti-cyclical action, especially after...

O processo de privatização dos bancos estaduais ocorrido no Brasil durante a década de 1990 – as circunstâncias em que se deu, as implicações econômicas, sociais e políticas, o impacto sobre a centralização-concentração bancaria, entre outras questões -, continua ainda um campo...

The purpose of this paper is to update the analysis of the process of convergence of state per capita incomes in Brazil, using new data for the period 1986-1995. Theil's L and T indexes are used to show that the process of convergence, observed between 1970 and 1985 and reported in previous...