Brazil has evolved strikingly in the last few years in the area of health assistance and access to medicines by its aging and urbanizing population. The government has also set the health industry - which includes pharmaceutical innovation - as one of its strategic sectors to be developed in the...

Brazil has evolved strikingly in the last few years in the area of health assistance and access to medicines by its aging and urbanizing population. The government has also set the health industry - which includes pharmaceutical innovation - as one of its strategic sectors to be developed in the...

This paper addresses the State capacities organized to promote bilateral international cooperation between Brazil and South Africa, and between Brazil and China, concerning international trade and human's rights, using comparative method and transversal analyses. Aiming to examine the impacts of...

The article focuses on the recovery of industrial policy in China, India and Brazil from late twentieth century on. First, it indicates the challenges of industrial policy for the semi-peripheral countries in the contemporary world. Then, it discusses the paths of catching up in the countries...

This paper addresses the State capacities organized to promote bilateral international cooperation between Brazil and South Africa, and between Brazil and China, concerning international trade and human's rights, using comparative method and transversal analyses. Aiming to examine the impacts of...

The article focuses on the recovery of industrial policy in China, India and Brazil from late twentieth century on. First, it indicates the challenges of industrial policy for the semi-peripheral countries in the contemporary world. Then, it discusses the paths of catching up in the countries...

Portuguese Abstract: O estudo dos séculos XIX e XX evidencia o carácter cíclico da economia, isto é, a repetição constante de fases ascendentes seguidas de uma crise (um momento de inversão conjuntural no ciclo económico) e, finalmente, um período depressivo. Regista-se neste artigo as...

A partir d’une approche interdisciplinaire, l’article cherche à élucider ce qu’on peut appeler la nature de la monnaie. Pour cela, on distingue d’abord les propriétés génériques de toute monnaie et ses usages non spécifiquement monétaires. On présente ensuite les trois formes...