This work has two main objectives: a) to survey a sample of recent economic studies on the present conditions of Brazilian foreign trade relations, including works in progress, so as to support the activities of the Brazilian Chamber of Foreign Trade (Camex); and b) to select a sub-sample of...

This paper examines Brazil's export discoveries in aircraft, cell phones and swine meat. All cases confirm the importance of efficiency gains and sunk costs in the expansion of exports and lead to the following conclusions: both economic policy and comparative advantage played important roles in...

Although Latin American and Caribbean countries have assigned a high priority to increasing exports in recent years-substantially transforming their economies in the process-export performance in most cases remains deficient. This book investigates why this is so, identifying the policies that...

The research analyses M&A transactions having as targets firms established in the Mercosur's region (including associated countries Chile and Bolivia). A database containing 648 M&A transactions and covering the years 1992/98 was built for this purpose. The results reveal a marked concentration...

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 HDI) in a group of municipalities between 1975 and 1996. Its main...

The paper analyses industrial competitiveness policies adopted in Brazil from 1995 to 2000 and compares them to previous economic measures and instruments related to the theme. A number of changes over previous policies were identified, such as: a) the agenda of competitiveness policies is...