What can we say about trade and growth when trade becomes a complex system?

Includes bibliography

Multilateral rules on competition policy: an overview of the debate

Includes bibliography

Science and technology policies in open economies: the case of Latin America and the Caribbean

Includes bibliography

Foreign investment in Mexico after economic reform

Includes bibliography

Condiciones generales de competencia en países centroamericanos: el caso de El Salvador

Incluye Bibliografía

Port privatization, labour reform and social equity

Includes bibliography

The Cuban economy

Includes bibliography

The banking supervision agenda in Latin America

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The motive ideas behind three industrialization processes

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Mineração e entropia: notas sobre interação com processos de desenvolvimento

O artigo apresenta pressupostos teóricos e metodológicos relevantes para a interpretação das interações estabelecidas entre mineração e desenvolvimento regional. É refutada a hipótese de que os mecanismos de mercado afastam a irreversibilidade dos processos entrópicos, como defende a economia dos recursos naturais de inspiração neoclássica. Refuta-se também a noção de que a degradação entrópica, do ponto de vista social, é, inexoravelmente, negativa, como pressupõe a economia ecológica. Como alternativa analítica, indicam-se abordagens que interpretam a sociedade capitalista como um sistema longe do equilíbrio e sustenta-se que as repercussões sociais da degradação entrópica decorrente da mineração vinculam-se ao modo de interação entre competências técnicas, características históricas, sociais, culturais, políticas e especialidades e potencialidades naturais de uma determinada formação social.

Mecanismos de quase-mercado na educação escolar pública brasileira

Pós-graduação em Educação - FFC

Proposta Curricular do Estado de São Paulo: retorno do discurso regulativo da tylerização na educação pública

This paper analyses how innovations and educational reforms affect curricular construction at public schools. It aims at reflecting if the Curricular Proposal for the state of São Paulo preserves the autonomy and identity of schools, if it respects their pedagogical political project, without attempting to homogenize them; how it changes every‐day school life, teacher’s practices, interpersonal relationships and power relations. We depart from the presupposition that this proposal adopts principles of the educational reforms started in the middle of the 90s, such as: adoption of national guidelines; introduction of market mechanisms, generating the fragility of teachers’ representation and their de‐ professionalization; relativity of the State’s role; stimuli to partnerships between public and private institutions in the fields of administration, allocation of financial resources for teaching    and implementation of external evaluating systems. At the same time, official discourse highlights decentralization, democratic administration, community participation. Some of these principles are recurrent in curriculum reforms: emphasis on the knowledge society, pedagogy of competencies and of learning to learn. In this way, we understand that the proposal aims at homogenizing school knowledge and curriculum practices, representing the notion of curriculum as product. We consider that the novelty and relevance of implemented measures demand further research, and that will be implemented by the author in 2010.

Uma crise à lá Minsky?: uma análise da crise financeira sob a ótica de Hyman Minsky

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

A three-pronged approach to social business: a Brazilian multi-case analysis

Social businesses present a new paradigm to capitalism, in which private companies, non-profit organizations and civil society create a new type of business with the main objective of solving social problems with financial sustainability and efficiency through market mechanisms. As any new phenomenon, different authors conceptualize social businesses with distinct views. This article aims to present and characterize three different perspectives of social business definitions: the European, the American and that of the emerging countries. Each one of these views was illustrated by a different Brazilian case. We conclude with the idea that all the cases have similar characteristics, but also relevant differences that are more than merely geographical. The perspectives analyzed in this paper provide an analytical framework for understanding the field of social businesses. Moreover, the cases demonstrate that in the Brazilian context the field of social business is under construction and that as such it draws on different conceptual influences to deal with a complex and challenging reality.

Inclusive business and poverty: prospects in the Brazilian context

Inclusive business is a term currently used to explain the organizations that aim to solve social problems with efficiency and financial sustainability by means of market mechanisms. It can be said that inclusive businesses are those targeted at generating employment and income for groups with little or no market mobility, in keeping with the standards of so-called "decent jobs" and in a self-sustaining manner, i.e., generating profit for the enterprises, and establishing relationships with typical business organizations as suppliers of products and services or in the distribution of this type of production. This article discusses the different concepts found in the scientific literature on inclusive businesses. It also analyses data from a survey conducted with the audiences of Social Corporate Responsibility seminars held by FIEMG. This analysis reveals that prospects, risks and idealizations similar to those found in inclusive business theories can also be found among individuals that run social corporate responsibility projects, even if this designation is new for them. The connection between companies and poverty, especially in relation to inclusive businesses, seems full of stumbling blocks and traps in the Brazilian context.