Development policy effort has been one of the major promises of politicians in developing countries disputes, regardless the way they are conducted, if either under democratic regimes or any alternative. Even dictators promise they will be able to perform better on this subject than their...

O livro Desigualdades Regionais no Brasil: Natureza, causas, origens e soluções, traz uma hipótese para explicar o atraso relativo do Nordeste em relação ao Centro-Sul Brasileiro. Ele traça as origens históricas dessas desigualdades e mostra como foram criadas estruturas sociais distintas...

A crucial issue in a developing country in which highways are built through withdraws of resources from public budgets is determining in advance their economic and social consequences, so that public authorities can take appropriate decisions on resources allocation. In this paper we develop a...

Esse artigo utiliza dados recentes para identificar o período em que o Brasil teve maior perda de PIB per capita relativo em relação a um conjunto de países utilizados como parâmetro de comparação, entre eles Canadá, EUA, Nova Zelândia e Austrália. Além disso, utilizaram-se dados...

In Brazil, the inequality in regional development is very high and points to the Northeast as the region most affected, not only because of income inequality, education, social capital etc., but also by the inequality of the financial system. This article uses longitudinal data for the cities...

In this paper we seek to evaluate the President’s Lula first term policies toward Northeast. Two main hypothesis are developed. The first one is that, under Lula’s administration, Northeast benefited from a crucial change in the logic of the development model adopted in Brazil. Lula’s...

The main goal of the paper is to evaluate the experience of PRONAF on the farmers of the state of Pernambuco. The data used include information on, approximately, 4.500 farmers from this State. The results are presented for the whole sample, excluding the "assentados", and by groups (B, C e D)....

There are two observed trends in the structure of financial institutions. The first one is consolidation, which leads to inter-firm concentration and the second one is the regional dispersion of their output. Both phenomena are often seen as consequences of development in the technology of...