Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: What is Blockchain? -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Distributed Computing -- 1.3 Centralization vs. Decentralization -- 1.4 Permissioned vs. Permissionless -- 1.5 Bitcoin -- 1.6 Proliferation of Blockchain Technology --...

Intro -- Map and Time Zones -- At a Glance (2002) -- Basic Information -- Geography -- The North -- The Northeast -- The Central West -- The Southeast -- The South -- Politics -- Political Parties -- Corruption -- Economy -- Background -- Current Trends -- Investment and Trade -- E-commerce --...

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms -- Presidents of Brazil, 1930-2017 -- Preface -- Introduction -- Overview -- Method and Analytical Framework -- Systems of Accumulation in Brazil -- Structure of the Book -- 1. A Troubled Path to...

- Preface - Foreword - Executive summary - List of acronyms and abbreviations - Assessing the links between business dynamics and policy settings - Employment growth of establishments in the Brazilian economy: Results by age and size groups - The role of mergers and acquisitions in employment...

This review examines the external systems in place to assure the quality of higher education in Brazil. It highlights the relative success of the Brazilian quality assurance model in regulating market entry for private operators in Brazil, which cater to over 70% of students. But it also calls ...

Intro -- Contents -- Editor and Contributors -- 1. External Liberalization in Asia, Post-Socialist Europe, and Brazil -- 2. Belindia Goes to Washington: The Brazilian Economy after the Reforms -- 3. External Liberalization, Growth, and Distribution in China -- 4. Opening Up the Hungarian...

Front Cover -- The IT/Digital LegalCompanion -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgment by Gene Landy -- A Note from the Authors -- About the Authors -- About the Authors' Law Firm -- Form Downloading Instructions -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Using this Book to Build Value...

Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Inducing an Industrial Revolution:The Creation of the National Steel Company -- 2. Industry Comes to a Village,Villagers Come to an Industry -- 3. State Paternalism in...

Rogers traces social and environmental changes over four centuries in Pernambuco, Brazil's key northeastern sugar-growing state. Focusing particularly on the period from the end of slavery in 1888 to the late twentieth century, when human impact on the environment reached critical new levels,...