This paper aims to formulate a concept of developmentalism from the Latin American historical reality. It's observed that the term qualifies manifold phenomena, in the past and in the present, without efforts on its delimitation. Thus, the concepts polysemy becomes ambiguity about its denotative...

The article aims at helping to provide a conceptual framework for the Brazilian debate on economic development strategies. It designs a strategy on the basis of the idea of the existence of three demand-led growth fronts, or three engines of investment: mass consumption, natural resources and...

This paper aims to consider theoretically and in a preliminary way the most important features and problems concerning the concept of Developmental State, discussing the two issues that would be fundamental for its proper comprehension: (1) the issue about the objectives which characterize a...

In a slow process marked by authoritarian moments, regressive effects, bureaucratic insulation, centralized arrangements and cronyism, since the 1930s Brazil has been building its Welfare State. In the wake of struggles and political clashes for ensuring rights and reviving democracy, the...

This paper discusses the de-industrialization hypothesis in Brazil based on indicators usually not found in the literature. The evaluation was based on the structure and dynamics of the manufacturing sector vis-à-vis the rest of the economy and, in addition, from an intra-industrial standpoint...

This article aims to show that, by analyzing both the historical development of regional integration processes in Latin America and the political and economic ideas behind them, ECLAC's ideas, from the 1950's and 1960's, about what features Latin American integration should present - a...

This paper analyses the inverted-U hypothesis between income inequality and economic growth to the cities of northeast of Brazil from 1970 to 1991. To it was used econometric analysis of cross section and panel data to the information from Atlas de Desenvolvimento Humano no Brasil. The results...

Using a panel data for Brazilian states in the period 1984-1998, we estimate the determinants of Brazilian crime rate. The estimates was derived by System Generalized Method of Moments propose by Blundell and Bond (1998). In this way, it was possible to avoid econometric problems, that affect...

In countries where per capita income is high the price level is higher than the level observed in countries where per capita income is low. This phenomenon is associated with real exchange rate appreciation in the rich countries and with the real exchange rate depreciation in the poor countries,...

There was a decrease of 10.2% in the number of homicides in the State of Espírito Santo, between 2010 and 2014. During this period, substantial investments were allocated in a policy focused to reduce homicide, based on the organization of prison system and on the "Estado Presente em Defesa da...