This paper investigates the evolution of the Brazilian per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - known as sigma-convergence -, between 1970 and 2008 across four geographic scales (municipalities, micro-regions, meso-regions and states), using four different statistics - coefficient of variation,...

Este texto investiga a evolução das disparidades do produto interno bruto (PIB) per capita brasileiro – cunhada na literatura de convergência sigma (σ) –, entre 1970 e 2008, em quatro escalas regionais (municípios, microrregiões, mesorregiões e Unidades da Federação), utilizando...

This paper assesses the effects of the international financial liberalization on the economic growth and social welfare of developed and developing countries by surveying the related theoretical and empirical literature. It covers initially the traditional neoclassical growth model and some...

This paper estimates the dispersion of GDP per capita among Brazilian municipalities, from 1920 to 2016, and between it's states, from 1939 to 2017, by Gini index calculus. The results confirm Williamson's hypothesis (1965), that the dynamic of regional inequalities describe an inverted U...

There was substantial spatial variation in labor market outcomes in Brazil over the 1990's. In 2000, about one fifth of workers lived in apparently economically stagnant municipios where real wages declined but employment increased faster than the national population growth rate. More than one...