Since the 1980s, the investments in infrastructure have been significantly reduced, jeopardizing Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and competitiveness of Brazilian agriculture. The Solow growth model with panel data is used to estimate TFP. An adaptation of the Zhang and Fan (2004) model for...

Economic crisis has been activated keynesianism. The current trends of the brazilian economy make it advisable to reseat the structuralism in economic debate. This is the primary goal of this article. To do this, it discusses a “two sector” macroeconomic model whereby sought to show its...

The ecological ICMS was first used to distribute a share of the ICMS revenue in the state of Parana in 1991. In the Minas Gerais State, the Ecological ICMS was implemented in 1995 with the “Robin Hood Law”. The objective of this study was to evaluate the change in the ICMS distribution in...