This study presents a typology designed to investigate territories impacted by public policies through the 2003-2015 period. For such, it was done a mapping of analysis and of stylized facts that represent the most relevant spatial transformations due to public and private expenditures and...

The present work aims to present how the regional development has been processed by several institutions, in different countries. In this sense, we will analyze the main regional institutions in countries such as Portugal, Spain, Italy and France, from the analysis of a relevant bibliography,...

This text aims to analyse the New Development Bank (NDB) established by BRICS as part of the group's financial architecture, focusing on the main motivations for its creation, ways of acting and governance structure. Although focused on providing credit for infrastructure and sustainable...

This Working Paper presents the evaluation of the qualitative criteria considered by cargo shippers when they contract freight services with logistic operators and transporters in Brazil. To do so, the data of a survey carried out by the Planning and Logistics Company (EPL), in which a set of...

The text discusses the territory as an instrument of public policies. Normally, the production of the territory mobilizes technical instruments, but also erases the complex course followed by the social and cultural dimension of that production. The nation and the units of administrative...

This paper discusses the differences between the Annual Continuous PNAD and the recently discontinued Annual PNAD, both surveys developed by IBGE; the relevant distinctions on the social security dimension between the two surveys; the guidelines and the official methodology adopted for measuring...

National Defense requires adequately trained, prepared and equipped armed forces to perform in guaranteeing national interests and protect sovereignty. Regarding the issue of equipping - which is the main focus of the three forces' (Navy, Army, and Air Force) strategic programs - it is not...

This work presents the results of a research on urban mobility of the Social Perception Indicator System held in 2011, by the Ipea. In this document it is discussed the current mobility context in Brazil and, throughout the text, made a characterization of the population by the most used...

The objective of this article is to describe and analyze some of the main characteristics related to the functioning and organizational structures of two governmental research institutions, the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) and the Korea Development Institute (KDI),...

Offset agreements represent a mechanism widely used by national governments, from which they pursue economic, commercial, industrial and technological benefits. It is the most popular and sophisticated counter-trade instrument, underpinning government procurement policy, involving a wide range...