The ecopolitics of development in Brazil

Includes bibliography

The relations between different levels of government in Brazil

Includes bibliography

Development banks in the financial-liberalization era: the case of BNDES in Brazil

Includes bibliography

Case study on the manufacture of transmissions in Brazil

Information Paper, No 14

Education and development in Brazil, 1995-2000

Includes bibliography

Trends in the share of railways in transportation

This issue of the FAL Bulletin analyses the history of railways in modal distribution in Latin America, and puts forward recommendations for improving their functioning and making them a real, competitive and sustainable transport option.

Index of political instability in Brazil, 1889-2009

This article aims to develop an index of political instability (ins) in Brazil between 1889 and 2009, reflecting a wide-ranging set of multiple phenomena that represent conflicts between the different social groups. By presenting different definitions of what is understood by political instability in the economics literature and by using multiple historical events —coups d’état, civil conflicts, constitutional or unconstitutional overthrow and changes in the composition of 50% of the ministerial cabinet— different indicators are obtained which are then synthesized into a single index using the principal component technique, to obtain an ins for Brazil between 1889 and 2009.