This paper aims to analyze the impact of an improvement in income distribution on energy consumption in Brazil, based on structural decomposition techniques. For this purpose, hybrid input-output matrices are constructed to associate the evolution of national accounts with the national energy...

Since the 1990s, Brazilian agriculture has taken a leading role in sustainable development. In this context, the United Nations Conference on the Environment (Rio-92) was held in Rio de Janeiro, the release of satellite images that reduced deforestation rates in the Amazon, and the...

This text aims to analyze changes in access and the profile of the student body in higher education. The guiding line of the analysis is the participation of the black population in this educational level, concentrating the research in federal higher education, which focuses on the Higher...

The objective of the this study is to present an alternative approach to the current methodology implemented by Aneel for estimating efficiency of the distribution sector of electric energy in Brazil. For this purpose, Bayesian inference is applied in order to estimate a stochastic cost frontier...

This work aims to verify to what extent the development style that is underway in the municipality of Tupaciguara is determined to exclude part of the population from the local productive systems, thus increasing the number of people living in conditions extreme poverty, poverty and low income...

This paper proposes a hypothetical representation of a policy seen in historical perspective. The modernization of the city of Porto Alegre, in the south of Brazil, from the end of the 1920s until 1937 was the empirical object of the author’s PhD thesis in Urban and Regional Planning. Here we...

This paper distinguishes how the source of lending affects gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in Brazilian municipalities between 2007 and 2016. A unique data set allows us to discriminate between the effects of lending operated by either private or public commercial banks, and loans...

There was a decrease of 10.2% in the number of homicides in the State of Espírito Santo, between 2010 and 2014. During this period, substantial investments were allocated in a policy focused to reduce homicide, based on the organization of prison system and on the "Estado Presente em Defesa da...

The purpose of the article is to assess how much the Multi-Year Plan (MYP) has managed to fulfill its constitutional mission to guide allocative decisions through the budget process. To this end, it discusses the functions of government planning, its relationship with public finances, to present...

The article's purpose is to make a conjuncture analysis in order to understand what is the cultural policy's crisis. To this end, we make considerations about the historical evolution of the culture's institutional structure over decades of development, accumulation and continuity. Cultural...