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Education Institutions (HEIs). In Brazil, although it is recognized as an important aspect for promoting growth and economic … in Brazil until the 19th century, and institutional support given by the government began only in the 1930s. Initially … internationalization, based on knowledge transfer from developed countries to Brazil, continued until 1960. From the 1960s on, Brazilian …
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We raise the issue of how appropriately to attribute economic impact to consumption expenditures. Despite the salience of the topic for applied economics it has not received much explicit attention in recent literature. In Input-Output analysis consumption expenditures are either treated as...
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Universities are institutions whose activities have important economic and social impacts on their nearest surroundings. Most studies of the economic impact of universities analyze exclusively the impacts on the demand side, the effects on output, income and employment deriving from the...
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Over the past two decades China has achieved eye-catching development in the provision of telephone and Internet services in its vast rural areas. With the literature's lopsided focus on Western nations, a cohesive paradigm in mapping the Chinese style of universal service policy remains...
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COVID-19 was identified as a major public health threat to the entire population including adolescents with serious implications for their psychological well-being and mental health. The aim of the current study is to investigate the association between the COVID19 preoccupation and difficulties...
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We decompose the recent changes in regional inequality in Brazil into its components, highlighting the role of … indicate that the largest part of the recent reduction in regional inequality in Brazil is related to the dynamics in the …
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Climate variability is one of the main environmental causes of losses to the agricultural sector. Most of the methodological tools applied to estimate its economic cost usually account only for the direct impact on agricultural activity. In this paper we use an alternative approach in which a...
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In 2006 was approved, in Brazil, a new regulatory framework, named General Law of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs …), regulating and expanding special conditions for MSEs - that representing more than 90% of companies in Brazil. The Law introduces …
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