The research aimed at investigating selected long term impacts of agricultural income growth on non-farm income, population growth, tax revenues and life conditions (measured by an indicator derived from the United Nations Human Development Indicator) in a group of municipalities between 1975 to...

The Brazilian economy was characterized in the 1990s by marked changes from previous decades, many of which induced by economic policy: trade and financial liberalization, privatization, other State reform measures and the beginnings of economic stabilization with the implementation of the Real...

This paper addresses a key issue of the link between increased capital inflows through FDI and industrial competitiveness in Brazil. It provides an analysis of the two way relationship which can exist in theory between FDI and competitiveness, as well as some empirical evidence from Brazil in...