In the productive structure of the economy there are activities that can indirectly impact the entire economic system, through variations in its production. In a way the economic development of a region is directly related ...

Rural credit and rural insurance have an important role for the agricultural sector, once they are the main public policies to incentive agricultural production. Rural credit reduces the farmers's budget constraint, finances ...

The practice of physical activities has become a source of ample debates both in the academic environment and in the daily life of individuals, with respect to their benefits to physical and mental health. Despite this, ...

The goal of this work is to analyze the returns to education in the hourly wages in Brazil for the period of 2011 to 2015, last five years of PNAD data. Even thought the relationship between years of education and wages ...

A crescente desigualdade nas últimas décadas atraiu a atenção da sociedade e da academia. Os esforços para entender esse problema criaram um amplo arcabouço teórico. Com esse trabalho, buscamos expandir a vasta literatura ...

This dissertation aims to evaluate the capacity of fiscal policy to smooth the cyclical fluctuations of the Brazilian economy. A theoretical discussion is held regarding the possibility of stabilizing the level of activity ...

The evolution of the concentration of different gases in the Earth's atmosphere is a worrying phenomenon, because the ongoing process of global warming is not explained only by natural causes and is largely due to greenhouse ...

The innovative process is uncertain and complex. Thus, knowledge becomes a relevant input for innovate activities. In addition to formal knowledge, it is important for innovation, stand out the tacit form, that acquired ...

The objective of this paper is to analyze how income concentration is related to tax policy in Brazil, where it seeks to assess the distributive impacts of an increase in the progressivity of taxes. Through the bibliographic ...

The growing impact on the environment of the global production of agricultural commodities has created new regulations that aim at a more sustainable production. Thus, sustainability standards (SS) are seen as a tool for ...