Chinese society has transformed in recent decades, moving from a predominantly agricultural country to one of the largest economies in the world. However, the accelerated industrialization and urbanization process has created considerable gaps between the rural and urban areas and the...

Brazilian agribusiness, a sector that represents a quarter of the country's economy, has undergone significant transformations since the 1960s. With the economic opening and financial stabilization of the 1990s, several agribusiness productive segments maintained a good performance, although the...

This working paper investigates the Marshall Plan from an unprecedented angle: that of strategy formulation, policy design, and the coordination of policy implementation. Through an in-depth case study, the Marshall Plan proves to be a far-reaching experience that still brings to light chronic...

This text investigates how public policies focused on racial equality were inserted in the governmental agenda and how they were implemented by the Brazilian federal government from 2000 to 2014. The research strategy was a case study, using process tracing to analyze the facts in this period....

This text aims to analyze the reform of secondary education in Brazil from a specific perspective: the potential to go beyond the traditional task of enabling students to go to university or to become career-ready by offering a broader and more balanced education that prepares them for entry...

The main objective of this paper is to compare the European Union’s (EU) Regional Policy with the Regional Policy in Brazil. In this context, the transformations that have occurred in the last two decades in the policies and instruments that promote the economic and social development of the...

The objective of this work is to analyze, through the theory of public policies, the Regional Plans for Regional Development developed by the Superintendencies of Development of the Northeast (Sudene), Development of the Amazonia (Sudam) and Development of the Midwest (Sudeco). Secondarily, we...

In this text for discussion, a synthesis of the trajectory of the line of research on the Regions of Influence of Brazilian Cities, developed by IBGE, whose content excels in the longevity, systematcity and timeliness of complex research that expresses the Brazilian urban network since the...

We estimate the effects of reductions in trade costs between the four original members of Souther Common Market (Mercado Común del Sur - Mercosur) on regional trade and on the Brazilian labor market, using the model developed by Caliendo, Dvorkin e Parro (2019), which features elements such as...