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The Urban Network and Territory research, developing in the Directory of Studies and Regional, Urban and Environmental Policies (Dirur) of the Ipea, comes following the activities focused on dynamic analysis, characterization and prospect about the urban agglomerations and the urban-regional...
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The purpose of this paper is to exam the regulatory failures in the Brazilian air transport sector, evidenced by the crisis started after the tragic aircraft crash in 2006.Initially, it presents a historical review of the regulation in the sector, pointing out the legal and infralegal norms and...
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Global South and particularly in Brazil. In this study, we examine the extent to which the urban form of Brazilian cities … impacts their urban mobility energy consumption. First, we present a descriptive analysis of how urban areas in Brazil have … per capita used in private motorized transport in the 182 largest urban areas in Brazil are affected by different …
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This paper uses firm-level data on manufacturing trade from 40 developing countries to explore how the five largest exporters in a country contribute to export growth and diversification. The origins of these firms are also studied. The data show that the top five exporters account for on...
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This paper studies the impact that import competition from China had on firms performance in the manufacturing sector in Peru in 2005-2015. Using a firm-level dataset that covers the universe of firms in the formal sector, our results reveal that Peruvian firms reacted to increased competition...
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This paper adopts panel data methodologies to investigate the impact of trade liberalisation on export growth and import growth across 28 Sub-Saharan African countries from 1981 to 2010. We find that trade liberalisation increases the growth of exports, however, imports grow faster by...
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This paper investigates the impact of market-oriented economic reforms on union behaviour in Brazil. Previous work … power has increased in the more competitive environment since the implementation of the reforms in Brazil in the early 1990s …
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’s productivity growth decreases the relative nominal wage of the poor and the relative price index for the poor in Mexico and Brazil …
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This paper highlights the large contribution of services to the Brazilian economy and the under-exploited potential of services to sustain productivity gains and international competitiveness. The areas with the largest potential for regulatory reform include improvements in the general business...
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Actually, Brazil shows expertise in production, internal supply and exports of an extended variety of agricultural … products and their processed products. At the same time, several studies expose Brazil's competitive capacity in those products …
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