This paper analyzes the relationship between financial development and economic growth in Angola, an economy heavily dependent on natural resources. We extend existing literature by treating separately the oil and non-oil sectors of the economy. We test for Granger causality between three...

This paper examines differences in the stability of the foreign exchange, money, and stock markets, associated with the use of alternative monetary policy targets, based on data from a panel of 20 OECD countries, for the period 1961-2000. The main conclusion of the paper is that the choice of...

The Center-Western of Brazil is known to be a soy production center. At the beginning of the 80’s, because of a governmental fiscal crises, the Brazilian road infrastructure and conservation lost its investment, which reflected on the soy international competition. The main transportation...

Urban population has been growing consistently worldwide, with large metropolitan areas experiencing expansion phenomena both in terms of population and extension. Naturally, these processes did not occur homogeneously throughout the territories. Through the last decade, population in suburbs...

In Portugal, the public debate at regional level is typically absorbed in the discussion of asymmetries amongst the ‘interior’ and the ‘coast’. What is often discussed, with political and social relevance, is the extent of the interior’s delay (in terms of development) comparatively to...

O artigo discute a conveniência ou não do arrendamento parcial de áreas de lotes de projetos de assentamento de trabalhadores rurais (PA’s), tendo em conta a insuficiência das políticas públicas de apoio à tais projetos/assentados. Considera a questão da produção de cana, seja com...

Analysis of the evolution of the business groups which have been controlling the production of sugarcane and its derived commodities in the state of Sao Paulo, showing their changing participation in three periods. The first, which lasted from the end of the 19th century to the year 1930,...