This paper estimates the dispersion of GDP per capita among Brazilian municipalities, from 1920 to 2016, and between it's states, from 1939 to 2017, by Gini index calculus. The results confirm Williamson's hypothesis (1965), that the dynamic of regional inequalities describe an inverted U...

This study seeks to quantify the stock of human capital in the Brazilian economy from 1970 to 2010. We chose to use the IBGE Demographic Census microdata, because, contrary to what is done in other studies - which use fi xed rates of return for all periods and/or regions of the country - this...

The aim of this work is to discuss the recent path followed by the indicators of productivity in Brazil based upon the results obtained in previous analyses and on the collection of additional data on the subject. Initially we discuss the relationship between economic growth and productivity in...

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...

This paper aims at discussing the implications of informality in Brazil by presenting new evidence on value added, occupations, and in labor productivity in the formal and informal sectors, disaggregated by economic activity. Moreover, we developed counterfactual exercises for these variables in...

The objective of this investigation was to analyze the characteristics of the agricultural structures of Brazilian family farming, in its multi-scale forms, as well as its aspects of location and specialization. Therefore, it was observed that the production structure of family farming in Brazil...

The study aims to estimate amounts of investment in the geographic microregions of the North, Northeast and Midwest regions, the preferred territorial scale of the National Regional Development Policy (PNDR). To this end, it is fundamentally based on series of public credit data from regional...