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 objective of this study is to analyze the productive structure of the Bahian semiarid in 2015 and to contribute to the development of public policies that foster its development. For this purpose, the input-product ...

The recent cases of rescued workers subject to slavery-like conditions show the persistence of this phenomenon in Brazilian society. This article scrutinizes the old and new mechanisms that perpetuate ...

This paper aims to treat about the relationship between uncertainty and the hoarding of money, looking for precedents in economic literature since 1930, when the liquidity-preference concept was disseminated. After this ...

The paper deals with the conceptualization and usage of employment and income multipliers, both of macroeconomic as the production theory standpoints. For this end, original contributions and recent syntheses from both ...

The paper aims to show that the common mistake of considering Keynesian income and/or employment multipliers as sector-specific, in a multisectoral framework, is taking its way back to economics. The phenomenon coincides ...