One of the core aims of transportation policies is to facilitate people's access to employment, health and education opportunities as well as cultural and leisure activities. Nonetheless, transport research and policies in Brazil are still largely focused on the challenges of reducing road...

The ex ante analysis aims, among other aspects, to formulate public policies and design government programs that are born ready to be monitored and evaluated. Evidence-based policies and programs may be improved only if each step taken by public action leaves some traces for the monitoring of...

One of the core aims of transportation policies is to facilitate people's access to employment, health and education opportunities as well as cultural and leisure activities. Nonetheless, transport research and policies in Brazil are still largely focused on the challenges of reducing road...

The ex ante analysis aims, among other aspects, to formulate public policies and design government programs that are born ready to be monitored and evaluated. Evidence-based policies and programs may be improved only if each step taken by public action leaves some traces for the monitoring of...

Despite the fact that after the second half of the 1990s studies of financial exclusion have gained strength among the studies about poverty and regional and social inequalities, a few studies about this problem had appear in the Brazilian economic literature. The present work contributes to the...

A palavra governança vem servindo para designar diferentes formas de governar, particularmente aquelas mais sensíveis às demandas da população e que estimulem a inserção dos movimentos sociais nos processos decisórios. No Brasil, “governança ambiental” é usado, em geral, para se...

As Políticas Públicas de Desenvolvimento Regional, no contexto de Promoção e Valorização das Externalidades da Competitividade Empresarial, proposta por Figueiredo (2009), são organizadas a partir do conceito de impactos externos (externalidades) nos problemas regionais, em especial, no...

A institucionalização de regiões ocorre por meio da definição de critérios, que estabelecem as regiões, no que se refere à abrangência territorial, possibilitando sua funcionalidade em relação à articulação de atores regionais, nos âmbitos sociais, políticos e econômicos, para...