The strategic monitoring of public policies is both a great lack and a great need for high Brazilian public administration. Among other reasons for this paradox is discussed in the text issues alienation and resignation, both applied to the institutional context. Then the questioning of the...

This brief essay is about balance and historical context of the emergence, peak and decline of government planning in Brazil, seeking to identify theoretical and empirical elements to justify - perhaps - their recovery since the beginning of the new millennium, as an intrinsic and strategic...

This paper gives a general overview of the evolution of labour market indicators between 1995 and 2005 in Brazil. It shows an overall increase in formal employment rates from 2001 to 2005, as opposite to what had happened from 1995 to 1999. It is argued that such recent trends might indicate the...