The purpose of this research is to examine the international insertion of Brazilian banking system, in comparison with the South Korean and Mexican experiences. Since the second half of the 1990s, these countries deepened the financial integration between their economies and international...

The article analyses the potentialities and challenges facing the creation of a human rights system of indicators. The analysis focus on seven fundamental points. Starting with a discussion on the differences between human rights indicators and social indicators, the author presents the...

The National Forum for Social Security (FNPS) was the main happening occurred in 2007 for people interested on this subject. Long term forecasts for the General Regime of Social Security (RGPS), produced by the Secretariat for Social Security Policies (SPS/MPS), were strongly debated during the...

The article analyses the potentialities and challenges facing the creation of a human rights system of indicators. The analysis focus on seven fundamental points. Starting with a discussion on the differences between human rights indicators and social indicators, the author presents the...

The National Forum for Social Security (FNPS) was the main happening occurred in 2007 for people interested on this subject. Long term forecasts for the General Regime of Social Security (RGPS), produced by the Secretariat for Social Security Policies (SPS/MPS), were strongly debated during the...

Portuguese Abstract: 1. Introdução. 2. Mercosul: antecedentes históricos e a falta de legitimidade democrática em relação às políticas adotadas pelos Estados. 3. Parlamento do Mercosul e o viés democrático da integração. 3.1. A experiência europeia. 3.2. Rumos e desafios do...

Portuguese Abstract: O presente artigo tem por objetivo examinar o sistema das Opiniões Consultivas do MERCOSUL e a sua regulamentação pelo Supremo Tribunal Federal, de forma a identificar a viabilidade da construção de um direito da integração no bloco, vez que uma das grandes...

Portuguese Abstract: Este artigo relata um caso de sucesso de empresarial no sector dos transportes na Colômbia. Comefeito, conta a história de Luis Gabriel Pinto, uma pessoa que toma a iniciativa de desenvolver o seu próprio projecto empresarial na prestação de serviços de logística para...

In this paper I analyze the interaction between firms’ earnings management behavior and conservatism. I predict that firms having conservatism-related bad news in the period have more pervasive earnings management than firms having good news. Departing from Burgstahler and Dichev (1997)...

The specialized libraries of the federal public administration provide services for the keeping and preservation of institutional memory, as well as meeting the specialized information needs of their maintainers, providing informational subsidies for the decision-making and public policy-making...