This paper presents a demand and supply model of the determinants and manufacturing exports from Brazil, for the period 1965-88. Previous studies are reviewed and the model proposed is elaborated in the basis of this review. The model which in the end is estimated is distinguished from the...

This paper studies the evolution of the quality of education in Brazil in the last fifty years. It begins explaining why there was a genesis of a low quality education in the country during this period and the role such bad quality may have had on its economic efficiency and development. Some...

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...