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The concern around climate change as a global policy guideline within the United Nations has brought about numerous transformations in sectors directly related to greenhouse gas emissions such as energy and transport. Given this scenario, the objective of the study is to make a global overview...
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The aerospace sector is highly strategic and symbolizes the economic, technological and geopolitical power of a country. In order to develop "national champions", China has developed policies and strategies for various industries. Thus, while these policies successful, it was possible to notice...
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reduce inequality and poverty and only a significant scale-up of university education would lead to much lower levels of … only have occurred under optimistic assumptions about growth, job-skill matching, and non-declining returns to education …. In short, education is not a panacea to poverty and inequality. These results are robust when tested with different data …
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This paper addresses different patterns of early work in Brazil, proposing a typology based both in quantitative and qualitative data. We first distinguish four categories of early work in the basis of age started to work and hours worked weekly. Applying linear regressions to quantitative data,...
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Life conditions for teachers working in basic education are better than those of the average Brazilian working … throughout the country. When teachers' average salaries equal the average of the population with tertiary education, it would …
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We examine the extent to which education is a main determinant of affluence in Brazil. We focus on workers in the top 1 … main conclusion is that while education may be important to explain total inequality, there is no evidence that mass … education is a major factor explaining the differences between the rich and the rest of the population. Not even elite education …
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This paper analyses two tax reform bills that are being discussed at the Brazilian National Congress, by comparing them and pointing their advantages and drawbacks. Moreover, the paper provides four empirical contributions to the debate: i) neutral rate estimates for the new Goods and Services...
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Publicly provided education is both an important public expenditure and a relevant in-kind transfer, often to the … poorest households. This paper compares three methods to value education services and their distributive impact. The methods … are: i) The first method is cost of provision, according to which education is worth what it costs the state to provide it …
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, focusing in the elementary and high school education, due to the main importance of them, as stated in the Federal Constitution … of 1988, where it is stresses the public mandatory supply for the elementary education and the growing role of the … government for high school education. This paper conducts an analytical approach divided in fours items allowing comparisons …
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This paper aims present, for the Brazilian reality, a diagnosis of the relationships among education and inequality … that it justifies the need to define a politics of accelerated expansion of education to assure the bases of a sustainable …. Brazil presents a delay, in terms of the education, of about one decade in relation to a typical country with pattern of …
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