Health economics (HE) is a relatively new field of knowledge, whose structuring began in the early 1960s, although studies on the intersection between economics and health date back to earlier periods. Considering the contributions of this field to the improvement of the Brazilian health system...

Marine spatial planning (MSP) is an internationally known tool for organizing and governing marine spaces and activities, economic or otherwise, carried out in these spaces. Being a public process of mapping and analyzing the maritime area that involves multiple interests, actors and factors, it...

The aim of this paper is to shed light on some conceptual, methodological and historical aspects about the use of evidence in Economics and, in particular, in Macroeconomics. We seek to pave the way for a deeper understanding about the normative criteria to guide the good use of evidence in...

This study explores the intersection between circular economy (CE) and international trade (IT), highlighting the potential of trade policies and instruments to promote CE on a global scale. The text addresses, directly or indirectly, four fundamental questions: how CE promotes IT, how IT...

This study sought to trace the historical development of the conceptual construction of the social economy in Europe and the solidarity economy in Latin America (and in Brazil in particular), highlighting relevant convergences and divergences. Although they emerged in different contexts, both...

Using data from the 2017-2018 Household Budget Survey, the work investigates the demographic, geographic and socioeconomic determinants of Brazilian families' expenditure on acquiring health insurance plans for their members. A distinctive characteristic of the data is that most Brazilian...

Agriculture constitutes an activity intrinsically linked, in the collective imagination, to the rural world. Such economic activities are also, however, carried out in cities, and their mediations. This study aims to provide a current overview of AUP in Brazil and evaluate the challenges...

Due to local climatic characteristics, water availability in the semi-arid region, a large territory that covers more than one thousand and four hundred municipalities in Brazil, is comparatively low. Initiatives by the federal public authorities to alleviate the consequences of low availability...

The goal of this study was to measure and map the agricultural expansion areas for temporary and permanent crops from 1995 to 2022 at the Piauí's County level concerning the Matopiba space. Data from IBGE were employed, and the study is based on the Embrapa's technical note (Miranda, Magalhães...

The text discusses the evolution of agricultural labor from 2012 to 2023. The relevant decrease in agricultural occupations during this period has motivated the authors to study the evolution of agricultural occupations by disaggregating them by position in the occupation and macro-regions of...