Formulation and implementation of interest rate policies are extremely important in less developed countries from the point of view of promotion of savings, allocation of resources, and the control of inflationary pressures. The crucial question is how to ensure realistic interest rate policies...

</titre> <alinea/> This paper deals with the processes by which Sustainable Development (as a prescriptive set of global norms) is subject of different forms of "translation" (negociation, selective appropriation, reformulation) and institutional construction in the context of rural policies in Brazil and...

The aim of this paper is to present the budget execution performance of the financing of territorial policy referring to the Sustainable Development Program of Rural Areas (Pronat) and Territories of Citizenship Program (PTC). To perform this study actors’ strategic programs were...

The recent “rush for farmland†in the world has made of Latin America and Brazil targets in the process of land deals with a great increase of foreign investments on the agribusiness including land purchases by financial companies, among others. Despite the low liquidity, land deals...