Sobre el tema de la educación todos tenemos opinión, porque todos hemos pasado por la escuela y la mayoría tenemos además hijos, sobrinos o nietos cuyo futuro nos preocupa. Más allá de ideas sugerentes y de análisis más o menos brillantes, no disponemos sin embargo sino de estudios muy...

This paper argues that trade specialization played an indispensable role in supporting the Industrial Revolution, allowing the economy to shift resources to the manufacture without facing food and raw materials shortage. In our arti cial economy, there are two sectors agriculture and manufacture...

This paper, written as a tribute to Albert Hirschman's work and thought, deals with the patterns of structural change and financing economic growth in Brazil from 1950 to 1980. Special attention in given to the role of external finance and to the evolving forms of public sector intervention....

This paper addresses a key issue of the link between increased capital inflows through FDI and industrial competitiveness in Brazil. It provides an analysis of the two way relationship which can exist in theory between FDI and competitiveness, as well as some empirical evidence from Brazil in...