In many large Latin American urban areas such as the São Paulo Metropolitan Region (SPMR), growing social and economic inequalities are embedded through high spatial inequality in the provision of state schools and affordable ...

The exploration of the so-called ‘pre-salt area’ of offshore Brazil under a specific production sharing regime is relatively new and brought about several changes in the Brazilian oil and gas regulatory framework as opposed ...

Distance education spreads knowledge and provides information to millions of people worldwide. Such kind of teaching became popular and expands education in remote locations, besides reaching people who cannot afford tuition ...

Ao possibilitar que o cliente destine o troco de suas compras para causas socioambientais, o varejo pode ser um grande aliado na disseminação da cultura de doação no Brasil.

This paper examines the incentives embedded in different regulatory regimes for investment by utilities in energy efficiency programs that aim to reduce network losses. In our model, a monopolist chooses whether to undertake ...

O objetivo deste estudo foi o de, por um lado, identificar os significados atribuídos à participação nas práticas sociais de diferentes atores envolvidos no contexto de implantação da Política de Pacificação em quatro ...

This paper discusses the current strategy of Rio de Janeiro's government to occupy the slums former controlled by the drug dealers. The strategy of pacification encompasses a first moment of military occupation, a second ...

Purpose - This paper seeks to investigate the role of income-inequality on the size of local government. Design/methodology/approach - First, the paper extends the model proposed by Meltzer and Richard, allowing for spatial ...

This article results from a qualitative study intended to understand, analyze and systematize, both critically and strategically, what differentiates social organizations that use art to achieve social change. Initially, ...