Potential consumption indexes are indirect measurements of the capacity of a region to absorb a certain product category. A simple linear regression method can be used to prepare a simple and robust index with results ...

Os vinte finalistas aqui reunidos são exemplos relevantes de mudanças na concepção sobre a natureza dos serviços prestados; de atendimento de segmentos da população tradicionalmente não atendidos pelo setor público; de ...

The objective of this paper is to show that there is a positive relationship between institutional stability, credibility and the rate of private saving. The most recent literature about disparities between saving rates ...

The project consists in identifying and characterizing the strategic change process in complex health care organizations in the city of São Paulo and aims to make an internal analysis of the limiting and facilitating factors ...

The unemployment rate in Brazil has been relatively stable in the last few years. But, at the same time, there is a reduction of the employment in the formal sector and an increase in the informal one. This change has been ...

After a long period dedicated to stabilization and fiscal equilibrium, the economic theory returns its focus to the economic growth. As there is a lack for new conceptual system, the growth models are searching for central ...

This study presents the results of a research about the incorporation of the gender perspective on public policies at the subnational level of government in Brazil. The study deals not only with programs with focus on ...

The present paper analyses the differente political criteria which have orientated the formation of the ministerial gabinets in Brazil, since the redemocratization in 1985: Saney, Collor, Itamar Franco and Fernando Henrique ...

The last years, the world and the Brazilian economy have been changing deeply. Fusions, acquisitions and strategic alliances are multiplying everywhere. Most of these changes relates with deep modifications in the value ...

This report was originated from a project that aimed at analyzing the quality management in the Brazilian manufacturing, processing and services industries. The research was undertaken in three stages through the mailing ...