This text investigates the impacts of education's public spending on social inequality in Brazil throughout the 21st century. For that, two data sources were used: the last three editions of the IBGE's Consumer Expenditure Survey (POF), referring to the years 2002-2003, 2007-2008 and 2017-2018,...

This study aimed to investigate the recent operational dynamics of the Abono Salarial Program in Brazil, with a time horizon between 2011-2019. The analysis took into account occurrences that may have affected the number of people eligible for the program, such as, for example, the strong...

Cities and their populations have suffered from the impacts of accelerated urbanization, with natural disasters, especially involving urban waters. The human and material losses witnessed in recent years, in Brazil and in the world, call attention to the importance of the transition to more...

This work proposes to examine the current scenario of environmental licensing procedures in Brazil, from a theoretical approach (legal, economic and regulatory) concerning the theme. Keeping in mind that the discussions regarding the environmental licensing procedure continue to guide the debate...

The spatial organization of cities has important implications for sustainable urban development. Several studies have analyzed how urban form characteristics can have different environmental impacts by influencing more or less sustainable mobility patterns. However, most of these studies present...

One of the main goals of transportation policies is to improve the people's access to employment opportunities, public services, and amenities. For this reason, an increasing number of transportation and funding agencies have sought to incorporate accessibility studies in the planning and...

From the 1980s to the present, transformations in the industrial structure of the states that make up the Midwest region drove industrial growth in this regional space. All of this was the result of a strategy to integrate this regional space into the national market and, from the 1990s, to...

Due to the growing importance of environmental policies in the United States of America and the European Union, including the impact on international trade, the authors propose a comparative analysis of the rules and institutions that govern the environmental issue in these two actors. After...

We propose and implement an index of macroeconomic vulnerability to foreign shocks based on a structural time-varying bayesianVARwith a block-exogeneity hypothesis for a given pair of a large economy and a small open economy. The index is based on the sum of the responses of the small open...