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...

The main goals of this article are the calculus of the productivity per worker in Brazil during 1990-2009 and the identification of its determinants. Firstly, we conclude that the average growth of productivity is 1,05% per year during 1990-2009. Secondly, we identify as most important...

In this paper we examine from a sectoral point of view the main trends of investment in the Brazilian economy in the 2000s and its relation to value added and to imports and exports coefficients. It is argued for the existence of three expansion fronts: infrastructure, natural resources and mass...