This paper examines the technological structure of exports from developing countries between 2000 and 2010, according to the classification by technological intensity proposed by Lall (2000). It compares data on exports from developing and developed countries, and from the main export regions...

The aim of this paper is to investigate intraregional inequalities in the brazilian Northeast region, from the differentiation of its productive structure. For this, the analysis applies space decomposition inspired by Feldman et al. (1987) and adapted according to the proposed of Dietzenbacher...

This article analyzes how investments in transportation infrastructure made by the PROACESSO program affected employment and wages of the municipalities of Minas Gerais, using data on employment and earnings from 2000 to 2010. For this, we use a differences-in-differences strategy that explores...

The main aim of this paper is to discuss the formation, organization and production of urban areas in State of São Paulo (Brazil) in the variant of the process of industry’s internalization in the late '70s. As industrialization has always been linked to the production of urban spatiality in...

Metamorphoses of capitalism provide the theoretical background for an investigation of present systemic turbulence. The starting point is the evaluation of the "unprecedented" governmental intervention to contain the 2008 crisis. The crisis and the measures taken to contain it affect five...

This paper examines the spatial pattern of ill-defined causes of death across Brazilian regions, and its relationship to the evolution of completeness of death counts registration and the changes in the mortality age profile. We make use of the mortality database available at the Brazilian...

In recent decades, several studies have emphasized the relationship between the development of the financial system and economic growth. Theoretical and empirical analyzes suggest that the development of the financial system has a positive effect on the rate of economic growth, generating...

This paper is the last of a series of five papers that discuss factors associated with well-being in Brazil using the World Values Survey (WVS).The paper has three main objectives. The first is to compare descriptively the most blissful and most miserable individuals in Brazil in the year of...

Marx's Notebooks prepared in 1868 and 1869 (excerpts from The Economist and The Money Market Review) are an investigation on the crisis of 1866. Beyond a broad study of that crisis, they are an investigation of an emerging transformation of capitalism. They focus on leading industrial sectors...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the funding of university-industry interactions in Brazil from DGP/CNPQ. The responses of 2,726 groups of interactive research relating to Census 2008 were analyzed. Analysis shows that the most frequent remuneration were the transfer of financial and...