"In this paper we examine the impact of commodity price volatility on calorie attainment and its variability for households at the nutritional poverty line in Bangladesh. We focus on the first two moments of the distribution of calorie consumption and consider the differential impacts across...

The paper assesses the consequences of the structure of the international credit system upon the balance of payments of the periphery countries, in the form of increasing chronic current account deficit, under conditions of liberalized external relations. The attempt has been made to demonstrate...

This paper deals with the restructuring of the Brazilian economy in the recent years, when it gained momentum. The formal model is based on Modigliani-Miller equation on value and an equation on revenues and costs. Both were modified as to include different parameters for the present owner (the...

The aims of this paper are to discuss the strategy of international insertion of Brazil and to propose a redefinition of the priorities of external policy, based on an analysis of the structure and the dynamics of the international system, as well as of the challenges faced by Brazilian society.

The purpose of this article is to present an evaluation of the financial openness promoted by the FHC´s government over the internal financial market and the external vulnerability of the Brazilian economy. The article concludes that the expected benefits derived from the external portfolio...

This paper provides a synthesis of the approaches to the financialized accumulation regime, showing both the problems and the potentialities of the theories that deal with it. It tries to describe the main systemic features of the financialized regime, while questioning its virtuous character...