Desafios internacionais à política agrícola norte-americana: o contencioso do algodão entre Brasil e Estados Unidos e o CAFTA-DR

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Análise da máquina de indução trifásica através das grandezas de Buchholz-Goodhue aplicando os vetores espaciais instantâneos nas condições de desequilíbrio e distorção conforme a IEEE 1459-2000

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

O impacto da qualificação da mão-de-obra no desempenho comercial do Brasil

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Avaliação do comportamento de pilares de concreto de alta resistência: simulação numérica utilizando o código de cálculo CASTEM-2000

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Pactos sociales para una protección social más inclusiva: Experiencias, obstáculos y posibilidades en América Latina y Europa

Presentaciones de Alicia Bárcena y Christof Kersting.

Globalización, integración y comercio inclusivo en América Latina. Textos seleccionados 2010-2014

En el actual contexto de globalización económica, el tema de la inserción internacional de la región cobra una renovada importancia. La presente publicación, la segunda de la colección “Páginas Selectas de la CEPAL”, contiene extractos de documentos publicados desde 2010 y que abordan diversos aspectos de dicha temática. Entre éstos se destacan la participación regional en las cadenas mundiales y regionales de valor, la irrupción de China como un socio comercial crecientemente influyente, los logros y desafíos pendientes del proceso de integración regional en su vertiente económica y comercial, y las posibles implicancias para América Latina y el Caribe de las negociaciones comerciales megarregionales actualmente en curso. Como trasfondo de todos los textos seleccionados se encuentra el vínculo entre la participación regional en el comercio internacional y el logro de un crecimiento inclusivo. Este último se entiende como un crecimiento capaz de contribuir a la reducción de la heterogeneidad estructural mediante un aumento del empleo, la productividad y el ingreso, mejorando el bienestar de la mayoría y reduciendo la desigualdad

Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Economy 2015. The regional trade crisis: assessment and outlook.

With external conditions sluggish and highly uncertain as the global economy still struggles to shake off the effects of the economic crisis of 2008-2009, the Latin American and Caribbean region is not isolated from these effects and is projected to record a small drop in gross domestic product (GDP) in 2015, followed by a weak recovery in 2016. Against this backdrop, 2015 will be the third consecutive year of increasing declines in regional export values; a state of affairs not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s. This poor performance reflects the end of the commodity price boom, the slowdown of the Chinese economy, the weak recovery of the eurozone and the lacklustre economic activity in the region, particularly in South America.

Panorama y retos de la política de competencia en Centroamérica

Los países centroamericanos, con excepción de Guatemala, cuentan actualmente con una ley y una autoridad de competencia. Las primeras leyes promulgadas, poco conocidas y escasamente discutidas, reflejaban las dificultades que los gobiernos encontraron para alcanzar los consensos necesarios para su aprobación. Algunas limitaciones de las leyes de competencia iniciales, que afectan también la capacidad de las agencias de competencia, han conducido a la revisión del marco legal y de la coherencia entre las políticas públicas, sin la cual se limita la efectividad de la aplicación de las leyes. Al mismo tiempo, la exigencia del Acuerdo de Asociación de Centroamérica con la Unión Europea, en el sentido de que todos los países deben contar con una política de competencia eficaz, también ha conducido a reformas legales. En este documento se exploran las transformaciones de las políticas de competencia en los países con ley de competencia en Centroamérica y se ponderan los avances alcanzados y sus persistentes limitaciones. También se aborda de manera especial el caso de Guatemala y los principales retos que enfrenta ese país en esta materia, considerando que es la única nación centroamericana que aún no cuenta con una ley ni una agencia de competencia.

A dinâmica das inovações nas empresas do pólo industrial de Manaus: um novo momento relacionado aos constrangimentos ambientais a partir do ano 2000

Esta Tese tem como objetivo principal corroborar a teoria Neo-Schumpeteriana , que envolve as mudanças técnicas nos processos produtivos das empresas estabelecidas no Pólo Industrial de Manaus – PIM, no que tange a influencia da introdução das inovações e, em particular, das inovações ambientais sobre a medida de concentração de cada pólo industrial (indústria) que compõem o PIM. Os dados da pesquisa compreenderam dois níveis: dados secundários, levantados junto Superintendência da Zona Franca de Manaus – SUFRAMA – e que se referem à indicadores econômicos de desempenho das empresas, situadas no âmbito do PIM; e dados primários, coletados a partir da aplicação de um questionário às empresas do PIM cadastradas nessa Instituição. Na junção desses dois conjuntos de dados foi elaborada uma análise descritiva referente às variáveis qualitativas abordadas no questionário, além, da aplicação de modelo econométrico – Modelo de Equações Simultâneas – com os dados do questionário e dos indicadores econômicos selecionados. Os resultados obtidos corroboram a hipótese principal levantada no estudo de que as inovações e, em especial aquelas de caráter ambiental, têm efeito significativo e positivo no índice de concentração calculado. Ademais, foi constatado que as empresas consideradas, pela literatura, como poluidoras, são as que mais inovam do ponto de vista ambiental.

Acervo Capiroba (1968-2008): um estudo da fortuna crítica de João Ubaldo Ribeiro

Pós-graduação em Letras - FCLAS

Pequenos municípios e pequenas cidades do estado do Rio Grande do Sul: contrastes, perfil do desenvolvimento e de qualidade de vida, 1980-2000

Pós-graduação em Geografia - IGCE

Entre a teoria e a história: a política comercial dos Estados Unidos na década de 1980

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Past is Prologue: Montana’s Historic Women’s Movement Re-emerges in the Progressive 1970s -- Dorothy Bradley, Marilyn Wessel & Jane Jelinski “In the Crucible of Change”

One-hundred years ago, in 1914, male voters in Montana (MT) extended suffrage (voting rights) to women six years before the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified and provided that right to women in all states. The long struggle for women’s suffrage was energized in the progressive era and Jeanette Rankin of Missoula emerged as a leader of the campaign; in 1912 both major MT political party platforms supported women suffrage. In the 1914 election, 41,000 male voters supported woman suffrage while nearly 38,000 opposed it. MT was not only ahead of the curve on women suffrage, but just two years later in 1916 elected Jeanette Rankin as the first woman ever elected to the United States Congress. Rankin became a national leader for women's equality. In her commitment to equality, she opposed US entry into World War I, partially because she said she could not support men being made to go to war if women were not allowed to serve alongside them. During MT’s initial progressive era, women in MT not only pursued equality for themselves (the MT Legislature passed an equal pay act in 1919), but pursued other social improvements, such as temperance/prohibition. Well-known national women leaders such as Carrie Nation and others found a welcome in MT during the period. Women's role in the trade union movement was evidenced in MT by the creation of the Women's Protective Union in Butte, the first union in America dedicated solely to women workers. But Rankin’s defeat following her vote against World War I was used as a way for opponents to advocate a conservative, traditionalist perspective on women's rights in MT. Just as we then entered a period in MT where the “copper collar” was tightened around MT economically and politically by the Anaconda Company and its allies, we also found a different kind of conservative, traditionalist collar tightened around the necks of MT women. The recognition of women's role during World War II, represented by “Rosie the Riveter,” made it more difficult for that conservative, traditionalist approach to be forever maintained. In addition, women's role in MT agriculture – family farms and ranches -- spoke strongly to the concept of equality, as farm wives were clearly active partners in the agricultural enterprises. But rural MT was, by and large, the bastion of conservative values relative to the position of women in society. As the period of “In the Crucible of Change” began, the 1965 MT Legislature included only three women. In 1967 and 1969 only one woman legislator served. In 1971 the number went up to two, including one of our guests, Dorothy Bradley. It was only after the Constitutional Convention, which featured 19 women delegates, that the barrier was broken. The 1973 Legislature saw 9 women elected. The 1975 and 1977 sessions had 14 women legislators; 15 were elected for the 1979 session. At that time progressive women and men in the Legislature helped implement the equality provisions of the new MT Constitution, ratified the federal Equal Rights Amendment in 1974, and held back national and local conservatives forces which sought in later Legislatures to repeal that ratification. As with the national movement at the time, MT women sought and often succeeded in adopting legal mechanisms that protected women’s equality, while full equality in the external world remained (and remains) a treasured objective. The story of the re-emergence of Montana’s women’s movement in the 1970s is discussed in this chapter by three very successful and prominent women who were directly involved in the effort: Dorothy Bradley, Marilyn Wessel, and Jane Jelinski. Their recollections of the political, sociological and cultural path Montana women pursued in the 1970s and the challenges and opposition they faced provide an insider’s perspective of the battle for equality for women under the Big Sky “In the Crucible of Change.” Dorothy Bradley grew up in Bozeman, Montana; received her Bachelor of Arts Phi Beta Kappa from Colorado College, Colorado Springs, in 1969 with a Distinction in Anthropology; and her Juris Doctor from American University in Washington, D.C., in 1983. In 1970, at the age of 22, following the first Earth Day and running on an environmental platform, Ms. Bradley won a seat in the 1971 Montana House of Representatives where she served as the youngest member and only woman. Bradley established a record of achievement on environmental & progressive legislation for four terms, before giving up the seat to run a strong second to Pat Williams for the Democratic nomination for an open seat in Montana’s Western Congressional District. After becoming an attorney and an expert on water law, she returned to the Legislature for 4 more terms in the mid-to-late 1980s. Serving a total of eight terms, Dorothy was known for her leadership on natural resources, tax reform, economic development, and other difficult issues during which time she gained recognition for her consensus-building approach. Campaigning by riding her horse across the state, Dorothy was the Democratic nominee for Governor in 1992, losing the race by less than a percentage point. In 1993 she briefly taught at a small rural school next to the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation. She was then hired as the Director of the Montana University System Water Center, an education and research arm of Montana State University. From 2000 - 2008 she served as the first Gallatin County Court Administrator with the task of collaboratively redesigning the criminal justice system. She currently serves on One Montana’s Board, is a National Advisor for the American Prairie Foundation, and is on NorthWestern Energy’s Board of Directors. Dorothy was recognized with an Honorary Doctorate from her alma mater, Colorado College, was named Business Woman of the Year by the Bozeman Chamber of Commerce and MSU Alumni Association, and was Montana Business and Professional Women’s Montana Woman of Achievement. Marilyn Wessel was born in Iowa, lived and worked in Los Angeles, California, and Washington, D.C. before moving to Bozeman in 1972. She has an undergraduate degree in journalism from Iowa State University, graduate degree in public administration from Montana State University, certification from the Harvard University Institute for Education Management, and served a senior internship with the U.S. Congress, Montana delegation. In Montana Marilyn has served in a number of professional positions, including part-time editor for the Montana Cooperative Extension Service, News Director for KBMN Radio, Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications at Montana State University, Director of University Relations at Montana State University and Dean and Director of the Museum of the Rockies at MSU. Marilyn retired from MSU as Dean Emeritus in 2003. Her past Board Service includes Montana State Merit System Council, Montana Ambassadors, Vigilante Theater Company, Montana State Commission on Practice, Museum of the Rockies, Helena Branch of the Ninth District Federal Reserve Bank, Burton K. Wheeler Center for Public Policy, Bozeman Chamber of Commerce, and Friends of KUSM Public Television. Marilyn’s past publications and productions include several articles on communications and public administration issues as well as research, script preparation and presentation of several radio documentaries and several public television programs. She is co-author of one book, 4-H An American Idea: A History of 4-H. Marilyn’s other past volunteer activities and organizations include Business and Professional Women, Women's Political Caucus, League of Women Voters, and numerous political campaigns. She is currently engaged professionally in museum-related consulting and part-time teaching at Montana State University as well as serving on the Editorial Board of the Bozeman Daily Chronicle and a member of Pilgrim Congregational Church and Family Promise. Marilyn and her husband Tom, a retired MSU professor, live in Bozeman. She enjoys time with her children and grandchildren, hiking, golf, Italian studies, cooking, gardening and travel. Jane Jelinski is a Wisconsin native, with a BA from Fontbonne College in St. Louis, MO who taught fifth and seventh grades prior to moving to Bozeman in 1973. A stay-at-home mom with a five year old daughter and an infant son, she was promptly recruited by the Gallatin Women’s Political Caucus to conduct a study of Sex-Role Stereotyping in K Through 6 Reading Text Books in the Bozeman School District. Sociologist Dr. Louise Hale designed the study and did the statistical analysis and Jane read all the texts, entered the data and wrote the report. It was widely disseminated across Montana and received attention of the press. Her next venture into community activism was to lead the successful effort to downzone her neighborhood which was under threat of encroaching business development. Today the neighborhood enjoys the protections of a Historic Preservation District. During this time she earned her MPA from Montana State University. Subsequently Jane founded the Gallatin Advocacy Program for Developmentally Disabled Adults in 1978 and served as its Executive Director until her appointment to the Gallatin County Commission in 1984, a controversial appointment which she chronicled in the Fall issue of the Gallatin History Museum Quarterly. Copies of the issue can be ordered through: http://gallatinhistorymuseum.org/the-museum-bookstore/shop/. Jane was re-elected three times as County Commissioner, serving fourteen years. She was active in the Montana Association of Counties (MACO) and was elected its President in 1994. She was also active in the National Association of Counties, serving on numerous policy committees. In 1998 Jane resigned from the County Commission 6 months before the end of her final term to accept the position of Assistant Director of MACO, from where she lobbied for counties, provided training and research for county officials, and published a monthly newsletter. In 2001 she became Director of the MSU Local Government Center where she continued to provide training and research for county and municipal officials across MT. There she initiated the Montana Mayors Academy in partnership with MMIA. She taught State and Local Government, Montana Politics and Public Administration in the MSU Political Science Department before retiring in 2008. Jane has been married to Jack for 46 years, has two grown children and three grandchildren.

Inserción de alimentos funcionales al mercado de la Unión Europea : oportunidades y desafíos para la exportación del yacón de Amazonas - Perú

Las tendencias mundiales de la alimentación en los últimos años indican un interés acentuado de los consumidores hacia ciertos alimentos, entre ellos los alimentos funcionales que además del valor nutritivo que poseen, reduzcan el riesgo de padecer ciertas enfermedades no trasmisibles. Dentro de estos productos se encuentra el yacón (smallanthus sonchifolius), que forma parte de la gran diversidad de plantas exóticas presentes en el Perú. El yacón es un tubérculo de la región andina que posee azúcares naturales de gran valor nutricional. Actualmente se destina a la exportación en forma de polvo, jarabe, deshidratado y extracto, teniendo como principal mercado Estados Unidos (75 por ciento) y sólo un 7,52 por ciento se exporta a la Unión Europea. Por la gran dependencia que genera Estados Unidos se hace necesario aumentar la exportación a la Unión Europea. Este bloque económico es el tercer demandante mundial de alimentos funcionales, representando un destino potencial atractivo sobre todo teniendo en cuenta que el producto ha sido aceptado por la Unión Europea según reglamento 258/1997 de productos novel food. Ante este escenario con potencial favorable de mercado surge como pregunta de investigación: ¿Qué restricciones institucionales, organizacionales, tecnológicas y comerciales presenta el subsistema para aumentar la exportación al mercado de la Unión Europea? Por ello se plantea como objetivo Identificar las restricciones y oportunidades del Subsistema de Agronegocios de yacón en Amazonas a fin de aumentar la exportación a la Unión Europea. La metodología que se empleó para su desarrollo fue el método: Planificación Estratégica de los sistemas de Agronegocios (EPESA) y se complementó con información primaria y secundaria a fin de conocer las principales restricciones del subsistema. Los resultados obtenidos indican que existe una demanda potencial del consumo de alimentos funcionales en la Unión Europea, caracterizada por una población que envejece cada día y tiene altos niveles de ingreso. En el análisis del subsistema de Amazonas muestra un escenario de alto riesgo y elevada incertidumbre. La no aplicación del marco normativo peruano que promueva la industrialización y consumo del yacón, la falta de asociatividad de la mayoría de productores, el bajo desarrollo de estrategias comerciales, intermediación, información asimétrica y oportunismo ocasiona que el por ciento del total de producción se quede en Amazonas, 49 por ciento se pierda en chacra, 50 por ciento se destine al mercado spot y sólo el 10 por ciento se destine a la exportación. Todas estas limitantes restringen la exportación del producto por lo que se hace necesario el planteo de objetivos y estrategias y así de esta manera aumentar la exportación del yacón a la Unión Europea.