After a long period of economic divergence before 1914, the Portuguese economy recovered slightly until 1950, entering thereafter on a path of strong economic convergence. This paper focuses on Portuguese economic growth in the period 1950-1973 in order to show how institutional decisions...

According to the main ideas that one may extract from Marx's work on a transition theory, the socialism would be an intermediate stage for a superior system - the communism - made possible only after the complete development of the productive forces, capitalism's 'historical mission'....

Developing the solidarity in the path to transition: an essay on the socialism theory based on Marx - According to the main ideas that one may extract from Marx?s works on a transition theory, the socialism would be an intermediate stage for a superior system ? the communism ? made possible only...

This paper aims to analyze, from a legal perspective, the public policies of Science, Technology and Innovation offered by the Brazilian government, more specifically, the Innovation Act (Lei de Inovação), in order to verify the effectiveness and impact of this measure for development, in the...

For many years the discussion about rural development in Brazil was left on the sidelines. The Green Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s, and the increased use of technology sparked an incipient and localized debate on regional and rural development. In the 1980s the discussion lost strength due...

The aim is to verify whether wheat production has expanded to other regions, in addition to the South, in order to make the country self-sufficient in the supply of the product. Although wheat is the second most produced cereal in the world, its production is unevenly distributed regionally. In...