We analyze the BRICs countries' role in Global Value Chains (GVCs) and their trade patterns in value-added and vertical specialization, using the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) from 2000-2014 with a decomposition model of intermediate goods and trade flows. Our findings reveal increased...

The objective of this paper is to verify the effect of the location of health facilities on amenable and child mortality in the city of Salvador in Brazil. Based on the theory of local public goods, we consider that the provision of public health facilities affects the local health condition,...

This paper aims to verify the long run structural changes in Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions in Brazil which presents the particularity of high emissions in the agriculture and livestock sectors, and low emissions in energy sectors. We use an additive Structural Decomposition Analysis (SDA) to...