This thesis is dedicated to the study of inductive environmental tax norms, one of the instruments with increasing propagation used for nature preservation. These norms are defined in this work as any tax norm that within its environmental policy guidance is able to induce certain behaviour of...

This paper provides comparisons of Brazilian Social Security against those of other countries. These comparisons include detailed information on social security expenditures, and other performance indicators. This exercise allows an accurate evaluation of the Brazilian performance and of the...