The paper investigates the relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction in Brazil during the period 1980s-1990s. It briefly reviews the literature on 'pro-poor growth', emphasizing the importance of certain qualitative aspects of growth responsible for enhancing human well-being in...

This study aims at analyzing the capital productivity in Brazil, its historical behavior and influence on the future development of the country. In what concerns Brazil, the capital productivity has decreased considerably, reaching the average level observed in the OECD countries, in spite of...

This paper presents a new and alternative approach within the empirical literature dealing with inequality. It investigates to what extent are the dynamics of income inequality in economies affected by the changes in the components of Total Factor Productivity (TFP). The basic idea is that asset...

The objective of this paper is to develop a theoretical model that take into account the role of institutions in the Brazilian States and their impact on the education of the youth and on illiterate people. Here, the institutions mean educational policies, government efficiency, level of...

One of the most influential evolutionary model in Nelson and Winter's book is the one dealing with industrial dynamics (chapter 12). From that model came out meaningful insights about market structure and technological change relationship. Despite the improvements made by evolutionary models...

The Rio Grande do Sul presented along the century XX a path of private capitalist development, in comparison with other States of the country. However, your internal logic of regional development felt with the amplification of economical inequalities, providing to the State the consolidation of...

The article discusses the main alterations in the productive structure and in the strategies of industrial location in the metropolis; it analyzes the specificities of the industry and the changes in the industrial structure in the capital and in the other metropolitan cities among 1985/2000....

This study aims at contributing on the literature of unequal economic development in two ways. Firstly, it attempts to make a theoretical contribution regarding some elements that determine the unequal development: the Post Keynesians financial factors and the NeoSchumpeterians and ECLAC-UN...

The literature on urban economics usually point up the developing countries as those ones with urban structure extremely concentrated and unequal, and the developed countries as those countries with a better distribution of cities. This paper compares the national and state urban structures of...

According to the literature on foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers, when a transnational company (TNC) subsidiary is installed in a hots country, it comes with a package of new technologies that can be transferred to domestic companies, helping them to improve their productivity and...