Development policy effort has been one of the major promises of politicians in developing countries disputes, regardless the way they are conducted, if either under democratic regimes or any alternative. Even dictators promise they will be able to perform better on this subject than their...

Esse artigo utiliza dados recentes para identificar o período em que o Brasil teve maior perda de PIB per capita relativo em relação a um conjunto de países utilizados como parâmetro de comparação, entre eles Canadá, EUA, Nova Zelândia e Austrália. Além disso, utilizaram-se dados...

A crucial issue in a developing country in which highways are built through withdraws of resources from public budgets is determining in advance their economic and social consequences, so that public authorities can take appropriate decisions on resources allocation. In this paper we develop a...

O livro Desigualdades Regionais no Brasil: Natureza, causas, origens e soluções, traz uma hipótese para explicar o atraso relativo do Nordeste em relação ao Centro-Sul Brasileiro. Ele traça as origens históricas dessas desigualdades e mostra como foram criadas estruturas sociais distintas...

In this paper, the literature on state-owned banks (SOB) and on the determinants of high spread and profitability of Brazilian banks are briefly reviewed. Then the paper proceeds to present the hypothesis that the way state-owned banks have interacted with public-owned banks in the market is...

This paper develops the hypothesis that the co-existence of state owned banks with privately owned banks together tends to raise interest rates spreads and profitability of privately owned banks. This hypothesis can help explain the relationship between the share of state owned banks on total...

This book compares the successes and failures of the development and growth processes of Argentina and Brazil. It provides important insights into the different performances of these economies through a series of comparative essays written by Argentinian and Brazilian economists.