The main goal of this work is to assess the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (Iirsa), launched in September 2000, during the First Meeting of the Presidents of South America, held in Brasilia, Brazil. The aim of this initiative was, at first, to foster...

This article aims to analyze trade and industrial policies in Brazil in light of the normative approach of the global value chains. The analysis of the Brazilian case shows that the policies recently adopted by the country point to the opposite direction from the prescriptions of the global...

This article analyzes, for the case of Brazil, the structure and the dynamics of two natural resources-based value chains: the poultry and wood furniture chains. The study shows that, in the sectors analyzed, there exist different models of organization of the value chains. Those differences are...

This paper aims at: i) presenting the evolution and features of the Global Value Chain electronics in the 2000s; and ii) analyzing the general lines of the Vietnam and Malaysia insertion in Global Value Chains (CVG) electronics, seeking to identify the exogenous and endogenous determinants of...

This article analyzes, for the case of Brazil, the structure and the dynamics of two natural resources-based value chains: the poultry and wood furniture chains. The study shows that, in the sectors analyzed, there exist different models of organization of the value chains. Those differences are...

This paper aims at: i) presenting the evolution and features of the Global Value Chain electronics in the 2000s; and ii) analyzing the general lines of the Vietnam and Malaysia insertion in Global Value Chains (CVG) electronics, seeking to identify the exogenous and endogenous determinants of...

This article aims to analyze trade and industrial policies in Brazil in light of the normative approach of the global value chains. The analysis of the Brazilian case shows that the policies recently adopted by the country point to the opposite direction from the prescriptions of the global...

The main goal of this work is to assess the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (Iirsa), launched in September 2000, during the First Meeting of the Presidents of South America, held in Brasilia, Brazil. The aim of this initiative was, at first, to foster...

This paper assumes that Mercosur has been under a crisis for the last four years, the main symptoms of which are: decreasing priority in the context of Brazilian Foreign Policy (BFP); growing number of exceptions within its Common External Tariff (CET); decreasing number of Mercosur decisions...

The aim of the article is to draw an overview of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), analyzing its formation and the main issues that will probably be part of the future agreement, and evaluating the perspectives for its conclusion and possible impacts, with special focus upon...