In this paper, we discuss the agricultural trade between Brazil and China. We select a set of key commodities and debate whether there are obstacles or opportunities to increase trade between the two economies. Following an institutional and historical analysis, we provide a statistical...

The Amazon is a vast region, but with many shortcomings. It presents one of the worst human development indicators in Brazil. This article shows that while the Amazon does not have an adequate policy to make the region economically viable, conservationist measures will be ineffective to protect...

The purpose of this paper is to compare two recent periods of Brazilian history - the decades of 1970 and 1990 - when foreign direct investments grew above the average of the second half of the XX century. More specifically, it tries to answer two questions. First, which have been the...