The contemporary literature on urban and region economics have found strong effects of agglomerations economies in space on urban-industrial wages in developed countries. However, there is no consensus if such agglomerative effects come from either external-scale economies of productive...

There is a great interest in free trade areas (FTA) in Brazil, predominantly in the context of a proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). In addition, a free trade area between MERCOSUR (the customs union involving Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay) and the European Union has also...

The literature on development experiences of local productive systems has paid little attention to the "specificities" of peripheral countries' socio-economic environment in which these systems are embedded. In other words, little attention has been given to the effects of the international...

O presente trabalho objetiva analisar a inserção internacional do Sistema Agroalimentar - SAA do Mercosul, o qual vai se constituir na unidade de análise deste estudo. A hipótese central a ser desenvolvida é que a integração regional sofre de um problema estrutural em sua inserção...