The present work aims to analyze consolidated changes and still pending change proposals to the Constitutional Financing Funds in the Federal Congress. The issue at stake that we seek to emphasize is the close dispute over funds' resources, as we believe that they are important instruments for...

The study examines the extent to which the Legislative Branch is involved in the processing of economic policies sent by the Executive Branch, as part of the process of political delegation. It argues that, as the PT administrations adopted a developmentalist economic paradigm, increasing the...

Brazil is a federation composed by the Federal Government, twenty-six states and the Federal District and 5,570 municipalities. The organization of the national health system is a shared responsibility of this three spheres of government and must comply to the constitutional principles of...

Cities and their populations have suffered from the impacts of accelerated urbanization, with natural disasters, especially involving urban waters. The human and material losses witnessed in recent years, in Brazil and in the world, call attention to the importance of the transition to more...

The current dynamics of sharing competences and financial resources exposes the need to remodel and refine intergovernmental relations through processes of coordination and cooperation in order to minimize asymmetries. It is in this context that public consortia have been standing out in the...

Brazilian society has been facing a new historical cycle since the second half of the last decade, whose most relevant characteristic is the adoption of the neoliberal reforms of the 1990s on a more systemic basis, forming an ultraliberal inflection - a concept that refers to the meaning of the...

This discussion paper presents a narrative review (non-systematic) of the specialized literature, particularly the empirical approach covering the period 2009-2021, on selected aspects of the MEI. The results and impacts analyzed, which are not exhaustive, indicate points where the MEI would...

Using the tools of Welfare Economics, the study estimates states' weights in the social welfare function of contemporary Brazil. Based on PNAD 2009 microdata, two methods of calculating the weights were applied: the Equally Distributed Equivalent Income (EDEI) and the average marginal utilities...