The paper aims to evaluate the economic impact of the North Constitutional Regional Fund (FNO). The study uses different spatial scales to analyse the impact of FNO on gross national product (GDP) per capita growth between 2004 and 2010. In sum, the fixed effects panel data estimations show that...

The paper aims to evaluate the economic impact of the Center-West Constitutional Regional Fund (FCO). The study uses different spatial scales to analyse the impact of FCO on GDP per capita growth between 2004 and 2010. The results of the fixed effects panel data estimations show that FCO impacts...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the regional impacts of the National Family Farming Program (PRONAF in the Portuguese acronym) between 2000 and 2010, using the econometric instrumental panel data models with fixed effects. The approach combined impact assessments at various regional scales...

This paper aims to evaluate the economic impacts of the Northeast Regional Fund (FNE). This study combines evaluations using different spatial scales that provide robust results of impact of the FNE loans on the GDP per capita growth between 2004 and 2010. The resu lts of fixed effect models...

Studies indicate the existence of a situation of underdevelopmentin the southern half of Rio Grande do Sul, directly correlated withthe farming and rice culture crises. The later suffers from the macroeconomicpolicies linked to the opening of the economy and with the pressuresof the increase of...

The theoretical foundation for this text is the one presented by Florida (2002a, 2002b, 2005). He discusses the importance of a vibrant society and also of a highly diversified population for the attraction of talented and creative people. This attraction would promote a concentration of this...

Throughout this article, we analyze and discuss the main trends in recent locational patterns of Brazilian industry. Taking into account the overall economic growth as well as in the industry sector since the beginning of XXI century, many structural changes related to the occurrence of...

The main objective of this paper is to compare the European Union's (EU) Regional Policy with the Regional Policy in Brazil. In this context, the transformations that have occurred in the last two decades in the policies and instruments that promote the economic and social development of the...

The objective of this work is to analyze, through the theory of public policies, the Regional Plans for Regional Development developed by the Superintendencies of Development of the Northeast (Sudene), Development of the Amazonia (Sudam) and Development of the Midwest (Sudeco). Secondarily, we...

To try to minimize the adverse effects of low water availability on the population and on the economy of part of the semiarid region, the Federal Government put into practice, in 2007, the São Francisco Integration Project (PISF). The PISF, known simply as the São Francisco transposition,...