This paper proposes a hypothetical representation of a policy seen in historical perspective. The modernization of the city of Porto Alegre, in the south of Brazil, from the end of the 1920s until 1937 was the empirical object of the author's PhD thesis in Urban and Regional Planning. Here we...

This paper distinguishes how the source of lending affects gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in Brazilian municipalities between 2007 and 2016. A unique data set allows us to discriminate between the effects of lending operated by either private or public commercial banks, and loans...

The specialized libraries of the federal public administration provide services for the keeping and preservation of institutional memory, as well as meeting the specialized information needs of their maintainers, providing informational subsidies for the decision-making and public policy-making...

The Covid-19 pandemic exposed the fragility of institutional supply arrangements to the world and sparked predatory competition among buyers. In this context, the rationalization of demand and use of medical inputs and the centralized management o these acquisitions are recommended strategies,...

This text for discussion presents an exploratory analysis of the main measures of emergency economic policy adopted by the federal government of Brazil within the scope of the strategy to face the economic, social and public health crisis resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic. The objective is to...

This discussion paper aims to propose an indicator of emerging technological themes. The development of such indicator is justified due to the need to guide the Brazilian federal government in emerging discussions on the field of technological policy. In reality, the wide range of information...

This study investigates the relationship between electoral donations made by industrial entrepreneurs and the behavior of federal deputies elected for the 54th legislature (2011-2015), with regard to the presentation of legislative proposals favorable or contrary to the interests of that...

This article discusses the Brazilian civil service evolution and patterns of change in each level and branch of government, from 1986 to 2017. Our analysis covers the total personnel, schooling, and distribution by sex, mean and median wages as well as the total government spending on active...

Fixed Capital has a major role in economic growth literature and on the estimation of potential output using a production function - which is essential to design macroeconomic policy. One of the main contributions of this work, differently from the previous works, is to estimate the capital...

Fixed Capital has a major role in economic growth literature and on the estimation of potential output using a production function - which is essential to design macroeconomic policy. One of the main contributions of this work, differently from the previous works, is to estimate the capital...