This paper presents a brief literature review concerning the costs and benefits of electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles, highlighting their advantages in terms of greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Even though electric and electro-hybrid vehicles must still overcome many cultural and...

This paper contrasts alternative preferential trade arrangements involving Brazil and each of the remaining Brics economies: China, India, Russia and South Africa. Bilateral trade liberalization scenarios are simulated under a perfect competition market structure, using the GTAP general...

This work follows the series of studies conducted in Ipea, in order to compare the efficiency of the Brazilian health system to health systems of other countries. We evaluate the efficiency of expenditure in health care provision by comparing various output measures (life expectancy; infant...

This paper analyzes the effect that shortcomings in the processes of "development, evaluation and selection of project" investments in infrastructure produce on the deployment and operation of these projects. The methodology adopted was to identify best practices in project development,...

This paper seeks to quantify the technological evolution of production in the mechanical sectors of the Brazilian Industry since 1985 until 2009. The main conclusion is the following: it have been a generalized augmentation of productive efficiency and more localized experiences of secondary...

The study analyzed the growth of agricultural activity in the Amazon region and the consequent increase in deforestation. In addition, it was investigated whether the difference in land productivity observed in agriculture in the region of the Legal Amazon can be justified by low efficiency and,...

This work assesses the possibilities of including distributive considerations into cost-benefit analysis (CBA), it summarizes the favourable and contrary arguments existing in the literature, as well how it can be done. A survey is also carried out on how the topic is treated by agencies and...

Determining the social cost of deforestation in each Brazilian biome is an important task to support public policy and the decision-making process. This work summarizes the economic valuation estimates of vegetation cover found in the literature for each Brazilian biome. A systematic literature...