A industrialização da pauta de exportação brasileira entre 1964 e 1974: novos dados e índices para o comércio exterior brasileiro do período

This paper analyses the effects on Brazil's trade indices of the rising share of industrial products in Brazil's exports in the period from 1964 to 1974. New price and quantity indices of Fisher for Brazil's exports and imports of industrial and non-industrial goods have been especially constructed for this period, in order to obtain methodologically consistent series of indexes from 1964 to 2005. The market-share-constant model was applied to analyze the effects of different groups of products on Brazil's export revenues between 1964 and 1974.

Novos modelos previdenciários na América Latina: lições da experiência Argentina

New pension programs in Latin America: lessons from the Argentinean experience. This work analyzes the political constraints of pension reform in Argentina. The first part presents a brief description of the development of pension programs in Latin America. Additionally, it also discusses the pension system crisis and the main proposals in order to overcome this crisis. The second part examines the peculiarities of the Argentine pension reform, with specific attention on economic imperatives and political constraints which have shaped the pension reform project of Menem´s Government (1989-1999). The article demonstrates that there are a large gap between the new system promises and its outcomes.

A hipótese do crescimento rápido: novos argumentos

The hypothesis of fast growth. New arguments. After the 1981-2003 quasi-stagnation, the Brazilian economy signals that it is back to fast growth. The aborted growth spurts in this period accumulated an expansion potential that is now emerging. The growth frustration was particularly significant in the case of the growth surge beginning in 1999, as an outcome of the large 1999 depreciation of the real and the substantial 1990s increase of productivity. Now this repressed growth is being spontaneously liberated. It may be additionally liberated by adequate economic policies. Improvements in macroeconomic policy and the implementation of mini micro reforms are consistent with this incremental approach.

O poder de fogo da relação educativa na mira de novos e velhos prometeus

O presente trabalho enfoca a relação educativa no contexto da escola pública das periferias dos centros urbanos, procurando distinguir uma certa indisciplina e até mesmo um certo tipo de violência inerente ao próprio entrechoque civilizatório que o ato educativo, em geral, pressupõe, de outro tipo de violência social mais contundente, arredia à escolarização. O autor lança mão de duas experiências pessoais vividas em escolas distintas: uma escola da periferia da Grande São Paulo, onde a violência, no interior da escola, atinge níveis acima do tolerável, e uma outra escola, tradicional de classe média, na qual também ocorre um certo tipo de violência. Acrescenta ainda ao esquema comparativo algumas reflexões oriundas de um enfoque psicanalítico institucional, procurando demonstrar a conjunção de forças inconscientes na construção do pacto mínimo para o estabelecimento de relações educativas.