Fiscal policy interventions are frequently prescribed to attenuate fluctuations in economic activity. Reliance on fiscal initiatives is particularly recommended during severe recessions when monetary policy has limited ...

Emerging market economies rely on a steady inflow of external resources and are susceptible to currency speculative attacks due to external shocks or to weak macroeconomic fundamentals. This paper aims at evaluating the ...

The selection of an efficient export portfolio allows the country to better adapt to medium and long-term planning, with greater stability and lower risks, which gives sustainability to development. The portfolio model, ...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the importance of the forest sector to the social and economical development of the State of Espírito Santo using impact multipliers on social and economical indicators. Analyzing ...

Slave labor, either subjecting the human being to forced work or to exhausting daily tasks, degrading conditions of work, or restricting the worker’s locomotion because of indebtedness has been actually found in several ...

This article addresses the territorial expansion of capital and its relationship to slave-like labor in the western region of Bahia. The western region concentrates the highest incidence of cases in the state, both in the ...

When making investments, the State faces the challenge of deciding how to apply them. For the energy sector in Bahia, the implementation of biodigesters in the semi-arid region represents a possibility for energy generation ...

Based on research conducted by the Center for Studies and Social Action, this report presents, in a straightforward manner and without extensive analysis, the findings of the investigation carried out by its authors regarding ...

The objective of this work is to analyze the socio-environmental conflicts involving wind farms, based on the entrepreneur versus landowner/occupant relationship through lease agreements for the implementation of wind farms ...

The Life After Rescue Project (PVPR) envisions the design of a new public policy to combat contemporary slave labor in Brazil by building productive reinsertion on an agroecological basis with autonomous and collective ...