This study analyzes the most relevant political and economic factors that conditioned the institutionalization trajectory of the brazilian Public Employment, Labor and Income System (SPETR). For this, the analytical focus was the financing mechanisms of the Fund of Support to the Worker. Based...

Pretende-se estudar a mobilidade internacional do capital e a problemática associada da sustentabilidade externa, do ponto de vista da tese de Feldstein-Horioka (F-H), e aplicar esta tese à economia portuguesa. Partindo do princípio das vantagens da mobilidade internacional do capital,...

The theme of this text is the construction of state capacities to enable medium and long term investment. The focus was on the relationship between public funds and state financial agents in the formation of institutional arrangements for the financing of economic development, based on a...

This study analyzes the most relevant political and economic factors that conditioned the institutionalization trajectory of the brazilian Public Employment, Labor and Income System (SPETR). For this, the analytical focus was the financing mechanisms of the Fund of Support to the Worker. Based...

In this paper we examine from a sectoral point of view the main trends of investment in the Brazilian economy in the 2000s and its relation to value added and to imports and exports coefficients. It is argued for the existence of three expansion fronts: infrastructure, natural resources and mass...

Over the last decades, the challenge of giving support to national economic growth process has become an undisputed issue. Since the second term of the Lula government, the theme of resumption of investment was imposed. In particular, the State of Rio de Janeiro benefited from a cycle of large...

This paper presents an estimation of investment flows for Brazil between 2000 and 2009 at the sectoral level through Capital Flow Tables (CFTs). CFTs were estimated for the economy as a whole and according the origin of products (domestic or imported). We use data from MDIC, IBGE, BNDES,...