This study estimated ad-valorem equivalent (AVE) for non-tariff measures (NTM) applied by 81 countries to 5.321 products in six-digit products of the harmonized system (HS). For that, the study follow the method developed by Kee, Nicita e Olarreaga (2009) and the contributions brought by Beghin,...

CPNU was a public contest, organized by Enamat/TST, to select candidates for substitute judge, which is the entry position into the career of the labour magistracy. From the perspective of the candidates, the CPNU demanded an extensive and profound load of knowledge, of a legal and extra-legal...

Considering the de-financing of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS), the health-related tax expenditure seems to be undesirable under the distributive justice approach. It represents an unpaid tax or public expenditure not directly applied to health policies, promoting, among others, the...

In this text, a newly appointed national secretary of education takes the reader on journey through time across the main dimensions of educational policy, observing its evolution over the last thirty years. Federative relations, financing, evaluation system, curricular parameters, and, of...

Central-government politicians channel resources to sub-national entities for political gains. We show formally that the central politicians' allocation decision has two drivers: political alignment (between central and local politicians) and the level of local political accountability. However,...

This article discusses which may be the trajectory of the Brazilian economy over the 2020s, particularly in the transition from the current period when there is idle capacity in the economy to a period when the growth of supply capacity may again be crucial for growth. From the context created...

Collective production organizations (cooperatives and associations) can bargain for better prices and lower costs, which increases net revenue, on the one hand, and facilitates the adoption of technologies, on the other. This study seeks to evaluate the impact of family production in Brazil and...

This paper analyzes regional impacts of different policies choices on the long-run trend, especially in the Northeast. Simulations, in the four different scenarios, ranges from 2015-2030, using the International Futures (IFs) model. This model encompasses a huge number of historical data for 186...

With a time frame that covers the period after the Federal Constitution of 1988 promulgation, this text describes, analyzes and compares the main attributions reserved to the state governments in the field of education, health and social assistance policies. In addition, it addresses the way in...

This text aims at exploring the literature about Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM), concerning its theoretical and empirical development. One intends to identify its main issues in the domains of epistemology and ethics, as well as extracting some lessons from these issues to the Evidence-Based...