Throughout the last thirty years, Brazil has developed health information systems (HIS). However, to date these HIS are fragmented and continuous endeavors to integrate them have failed. This leads to important questions ...

The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of standardized systems of policy evaluation on government transparency and official's accountability. More specifically it discusses the impact of program evaluation ...

This article is the result of analysis and reflection on the importance of public procurement practices in the management of local development. In this paper, we present the background of recent experiences of local ...

This Article identifies and analyzes the growing impact that violence and lack of security have had on legal institutions in Brazil. In particular, we examine the emergence of what we term adaptive policies, for which we ...

This paper analyzes the emergence of HIV/aids field in the context of public policies in Brazil, mapping actors involved, their positions and resources used to create new institutional logics. The Brazilian HIV/aids policy ...

The distorted formation of administered prices in recent Brazilian experience. This article discusses the necessity for microeconomic price adjustment in Brazil at the end of the first government Dilma Rousseff (2011-2014). ...

The development of the Brazilian Electronic Government Program started in 2000, during the Ferrnando Henrique Cardoso administration. Today it is in its third management of two different administrations. Although the ...

This paper questions whether the arrangements of the country's new housing program called My House My Life (PMCMV) are democratic and effective. In other words, if they encourage the broader participation of numerous players ...

From the 1970s, the importance of small business - SB - started to be increasingly recognized, mainly because of its role in generating employment. Among the measures taken by the Brazilian government to encourage and ...