The auto industry, since the 1960s, showed substantial growth in South Korea causing the country at the end of the 1980s was among the world's leading manufacturers of automobiles. In the early 1990s, associated with the opening up of the economy held by the Korean government, the auto industry...

The new strategies of internationalization of production lie in the fact many industries leave the condition of bounded entities nationally for the condition of fragmented business networks, in organizational terms, globally distributed, leading companies to engage in the production of a good or...

From the 1990s, it intensified in the global economy the implementation of strategies for companies of fragmenting their production processes and allocate their productive activities in various countries and regions, forming with this global value chains to recreate the international division of...

The study investigates the role of Banco do Nordeste do Brasil (BNB) as a financing agent for regional development policy (PNDR). Initially, it brings a brief discussion on ways of acting public development banks (BD) in the contemporary world. The analytical effort then focuses on identifying...

This paper estimates the dispersion of GDP per capita among Brazilian municipalities, from 1920 to 2016, and between it's states, from 1939 to 2017, by Gini index calculus. The results confirm Williamson's hypothesis (1965), that the dynamic of regional inequalities describe an inverted U...

This discussion paper analyzes the catching-up and leapfrogging strategies implemented in China as a mechanism to overcome the middle-income trap. For this, it adopts the theoretical and methodological framework of the sectorial innovation system and the technological catch-up according to the...

This report consists of two parts. In this first part, I analyze the emergence of large oligopolies in the telecommunications sector in China, mainly showing how this was a strategy to strengthen national companies (indigenous companies) that manufacture telecommunications equipment, which...

This report is divided into two parts. In this second part, I analyze the evolution of the telecommunications equipment manufacturers market in China, mainly showing the essentiality of the articulation between Chinese telecommunications operators with the public policies of the Chinese...

This paper analyzes the personnel expenditures in the Brazilian federal civil public service using administrative records from the Executive Branch. There are two contributions which are noteworthy because they may improve the understanding of policy makers regarding the evolution of those...