Like the inhabitants of the city Leonia, according to Italo Calvino, we live the era of consumerism and the exacerbated production of garbage. The problem of excessive waste from bulimic consumption has resulted in the emergence of recyclable waste pickers, who are supposed to have their...

This paper aims at assessing the effects of real exchange rate overvaluation over the export composition for developing countries in a time span of 1970-2004. For this intent, it is estimated an exchange rate overvaluation index by using panel cointegration techniques (Dynamic Ordinary Least...