cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19964547.v1
title: Silicon Valley in the South

description: ABSTRACT New trends are now taking place within manufacturing industries led by multi-national corporations (MNCs). Globalization and liberalization together with the information technology (IT) revolution has accelerated “fables” industry in the network economy, i.e. outsourcing production processes and global parts procurement by MNCs. As a consequence of this, the primary function of the MNC has changed from that of manufacturer to ‘service’ provider by outsourcing production processes to foreign contract manufacturers (CMs). NAFTA in fact mutated Mexico into a production platform toward the US and Canada as well as Latin American countries. We can observe these dramatic changes, for instance, in Guadalajara in Mexico, now called the “Silicon Valley in the South”. Since MNCs use their brand names to sell products, their business function becomes close to that of the fashion industry. They market their products in the same way as Gucci and Chanel sell products of original design carrying their brand names. Therefore, product design and marketing become highly important for MNCs to achieve success in business while domestic providers have been left behind for their parts and components supply in this new global supply chain.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11452989.v1
title: Measuring the credibility of the inflation targeting in Brazil

description: ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to apply two indexes for measuring the credibility of the inflation targeting in Brazil and to analyze their outcomes. The findings denote that the framework adopted for this monetary regime in Brazil is not adequate for building credibility.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11452989
title: Measuring the credibility of the inflation targeting in Brazil

description: ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to apply two indexes for measuring the credibility of the inflation targeting in Brazil and to analyze their outcomes. The findings denote that the framework adopted for this monetary regime in Brazil is not adequate for building credibility.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11452635
title: Bacen and selected Central Banks: comparative analysis of the transparency degree

description: ABSTRACT This paper compares the degree of transparency of the Brazilian Central Bank (Bacen) with the one verified in other selected Central Banks (CBs). Following the methodology developed in Hann and Eijffinger (2000), we constructed an indicator for transparency based on: (i) how clear the CBs are with respect to their monetary policy objectives, and (ii) how transparent the CBs implement their monetary policy. The Bacen has become more transparent after adopting the inflation targeting regime in 1999. However, these more transparent procedures are not part of the law that regulates the Bacen, indicating that they can be easily replaced.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11452635.v1
title: Bacen and selected Central Banks: comparative analysis of the transparency degree

description: ABSTRACT This paper compares the degree of transparency of the Brazilian Central Bank (Bacen) with the one verified in other selected Central Banks (CBs). Following the methodology developed in Hann and Eijffinger (2000), we constructed an indicator for transparency based on: (i) how clear the CBs are with respect to their monetary policy objectives, and (ii) how transparent the CBs implement their monetary policy. The Bacen has become more transparent after adopting the inflation targeting regime in 1999. However, these more transparent procedures are not part of the law that regulates the Bacen, indicating that they can be easily replaced.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11452188
title: Argentina and the global capital roller coaster of the 1990s

description: ABSTRACT This essay analyzes the Argentine “currency board” experiment during the 1990s, both from a theoretical and historical point of view. It finds that earlier failed attempts to control inflation with a quasi-fixed exchange rate in a highly politicized environment should have been a lesson to heed. While detailing the various shortcomings of the domestic economic policies, ample space is devoted to ex- amine the gyrating international capital markets and their impact on the Argentine program. Moreover, it is maintained that the Argentine political environment, the stability of which was crucial for success in the early years, deteriorated to such an extent after 1996 that it significantly contributed to the breakdown of the economic program and the system itself. The essay concludes with a short consideration of the Chilean economic policies, which were characterized by a great degree of pragmatism and prudence and consequently succeeded to escape the dire fate of its neighbor.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11452188.v1
title: Argentina and the global capital roller coaster of the 1990s

description: ABSTRACT This essay analyzes the Argentine “currency board” experiment during the 1990s, both from a theoretical and historical point of view. It finds that earlier failed attempts to control inflation with a quasi-fixed exchange rate in a highly politicized environment should have been a lesson to heed. While detailing the various shortcomings of the domestic economic policies, ample space is devoted to ex- amine the gyrating international capital markets and their impact on the Argentine program. Moreover, it is maintained that the Argentine political environment, the stability of which was crucial for success in the early years, deteriorated to such an extent after 1996 that it significantly contributed to the breakdown of the economic program and the system itself. The essay concludes with a short consideration of the Chilean economic policies, which were characterized by a great degree of pragmatism and prudence and consequently succeeded to escape the dire fate of its neighbor.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11452461
title: The law of fiscal management responsibility: Combating government failures in the Brazilian way

description: ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is analyzing the principal aspects of the new regulation, the so-called “Lei de Responsabilidade na Gestão Fiscal” using the framework of the budget imbalance as a government failure. We pointed out that the principle of the new regulation is that if the government planning is highly detailed and the deficit is under control, we will observe neither inflation nor debt pressures. There are two great issues of control: limits to expenditures with personnel’s salaries and the amount of debt. The new regulation restrains the public action during the last year of mandate and deals with the importance of spreading information on fiscal issues and the public participation on the budgetary practices. Despite the good aspects of the regulation - especially on the last year of a given government’s expenditures, there are still some problems: the lack of discussion on the adequate size and functions of the government and the anti-cyclical component of the government action which is despised by the law.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11452461.v1
title: The law of fiscal management responsibility: Combating government failures in the Brazilian way

description: ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is analyzing the principal aspects of the new regulation, the so-called “Lei de Responsabilidade na Gestão Fiscal” using the framework of the budget imbalance as a government failure. We pointed out that the principle of the new regulation is that if the government planning is highly detailed and the deficit is under control, we will observe neither inflation nor debt pressures. There are two great issues of control: limits to expenditures with personnel’s salaries and the amount of debt. The new regulation restrains the public action during the last year of mandate and deals with the importance of spreading information on fiscal issues and the public participation on the budgetary practices. Despite the good aspects of the regulation - especially on the last year of a given government’s expenditures, there are still some problems: the lack of discussion on the adequate size and functions of the government and the anti-cyclical component of the government action which is despised by the law.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11452434
title: Money and space in Brazil: a study of selected areas

description: ABSTRACT The aim of this piece is to analyse, under the post-Keynesian framework, the relationship between the centrality and the dynamism of regions, and the behaviour of some regional financial variables in Brazil from 1988 to 2000. This paper undertakes the analysis using a special geo-economic delineation presented by Lemos, Guerra and Moro (2000) and the existence of the polygon of development proposed by Diniz (1993). The results show the relation between the centrality of a region and the presence of institutional characteristics that make the credit easier to be created during the analysed period.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11452434.v1
title: Money and space in Brazil: a study of selected areas

description: ABSTRACT The aim of this piece is to analyse, under the post-Keynesian framework, the relationship between the centrality and the dynamism of regions, and the behaviour of some regional financial variables in Brazil from 1988 to 2000. This paper undertakes the analysis using a special geo-economic delineation presented by Lemos, Guerra and Moro (2000) and the existence of the polygon of development proposed by Diniz (1993). The results show the relation between the centrality of a region and the presence of institutional characteristics that make the credit easier to be created during the analysed period.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11452191.v1
title: Models of commercial protection: a review

description: ABSTRACT Protectionism has been an enduring source of international disputes since at least the nineteenth century. In the last decades, an array of nontariff barriers has created a new global phenomenon, the so-called New Protectionism, which once more shows the strength of the forces leading to the adoption of trade barriers by nations. This article aims to review representative analytical models which deal with the causes of protectionism. First, the article discusses historical political economy models and their focus on social groups, institutions and historical analysis. Second, the article addresses positive political economy models which bring organizations, interests and social actors into the framework of rational choice.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11452191
title: Models of commercial protection: a review

description: ABSTRACT Protectionism has been an enduring source of international disputes since at least the nineteenth century. In the last decades, an array of nontariff barriers has created a new global phenomenon, the so-called New Protectionism, which once more shows the strength of the forces leading to the adoption of trade barriers by nations. This article aims to review representative analytical models which deal with the causes of protectionism. First, the article discusses historical political economy models and their focus on social groups, institutions and historical analysis. Second, the article addresses positive political economy models which bring organizations, interests and social actors into the framework of rational choice.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11452149
title: Capitalism, Development, and Democracy

description: ABSTRACT Capitalism is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for democracy. This relation is historically contingent. It is true that democracy tends to prevail in the most developed capitalist countries. But this is not because capitalist development breeds democracy. The reason is that once democracy is present in wealthy societies, everyone has too much at stake to risk a struggle for dictatorship.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11452149.v1
title: Capitalism, Development, and Democracy

description: ABSTRACT Capitalism is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for democracy. This relation is historically contingent. It is true that democracy tends to prevail in the most developed capitalist countries. But this is not because capitalist development breeds democracy. The reason is that once democracy is present in wealthy societies, everyone has too much at stake to risk a struggle for dictatorship.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11452146
title: IS-LM: a history?

description: ABSTRACT For some economists, the IS-LM model is already past, corresponding to a remote phase of the history of economic thought. In this paper, we try to demonstrate that this is not necessarily true. At the same time, we take advantage of the model’s longevity to provide a brief account of some events in Macroeconomics. Also, we call attention for the increasing differences between “academic” and “practical” macroeconomists, a fact that may indicate the existence of problems pertaining to teaching and applications in the field. Despite all the model’s flaws, we believe that it hasn’t entered to the hall of historical icons of Economics yet and it may still be useful, at least in the sense of training younger generations of students with basic macroeconomic concepts.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11452146.v1
title: IS-LM: a history?

description: ABSTRACT For some economists, the IS-LM model is already past, corresponding to a remote phase of the history of economic thought. In this paper, we try to demonstrate that this is not necessarily true. At the same time, we take advantage of the model’s longevity to provide a brief account of some events in Macroeconomics. Also, we call attention for the increasing differences between “academic” and “practical” macroeconomists, a fact that may indicate the existence of problems pertaining to teaching and applications in the field. Despite all the model’s flaws, we believe that it hasn’t entered to the hall of historical icons of Economics yet and it may still be useful, at least in the sense of training younger generations of students with basic macroeconomic concepts.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11452773
title: Clusters or Local Production Systems: Mapping, Classification and Suggestions for Polices

description: ABSTRACT This paper sets out to advance further in the development of a methodology for mapping, classifying and characterizing Local Production Systems (LPS) in Brazil. Such effort is justified not only for the importance these systems have been amassing for generating jobs and social welfare, economic growth, exports and technological development, but also for the attention they have received from several public organisms and private institutions, many times lacking adequate methodological criteria, resulting in dispersion of efforts and waste of both public and private resources. Therefore, the main goal of the paper is to provide evidence that allows rationalizing public policies administration criteria and private actions directed to LPS, offering suggestions for policies and actions differentiated according to categories or types of systems with distinct characteristics according to their relevance to local or regional development as well as their importance in the context of the sector in which they are inserted.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11452773.v1
title: Clusters or Local Production Systems: Mapping, Classification and Suggestions for Polices

description: ABSTRACT This paper sets out to advance further in the development of a methodology for mapping, classifying and characterizing Local Production Systems (LPS) in Brazil. Such effort is justified not only for the importance these systems have been amassing for generating jobs and social welfare, economic growth, exports and technological development, but also for the attention they have received from several public organisms and private institutions, many times lacking adequate methodological criteria, resulting in dispersion of efforts and waste of both public and private resources. Therefore, the main goal of the paper is to provide evidence that allows rationalizing public policies administration criteria and private actions directed to LPS, offering suggestions for policies and actions differentiated according to categories or types of systems with distinct characteristics according to their relevance to local or regional development as well as their importance in the context of the sector in which they are inserted.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11452086
title: Mercosur: ambitious policies, poor practices

description: ABSTRACT Mercosur has achieved important advances like the removal of intra- bloc tariff and non-tariff barriers and the establishment of a common external tariff for most products. However, its ambitious plans to deepen the integration process comprising harmonisation of policies in areas like competition policy, government procurement, technical barriers and phytosanitary measures have not been implemented yet. This paper examines Mercosur policies in relation to tariffs and other non-tariff barriers comparing them with their implementation, in order to examine the extent to which the proposals have actually been fulfilled.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11452086.v1
title: Mercosur: ambitious policies, poor practices

description: ABSTRACT Mercosur has achieved important advances like the removal of intra- bloc tariff and non-tariff barriers and the establishment of a common external tariff for most products. However, its ambitious plans to deepen the integration process comprising harmonisation of policies in areas like competition policy, government procurement, technical barriers and phytosanitary measures have not been implemented yet. This paper examines Mercosur policies in relation to tariffs and other non-tariff barriers comparing them with their implementation, in order to examine the extent to which the proposals have actually been fulfilled.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11452947.v1
title: Eighteen years after Lucro, Acumulação e Crise: An analysis on economic development, technological progress and income distribution

description: ABSTRACT This paper revisits Bresser-Pereira’s (1984, 1986, 2002) integrated analysis on economic development, technological progress and functional income distribution. That analysis combines pure economic theory aspects and historical aspects in an innovative perspective. Criticisms about the succession of phases of capitalism development tentatively advanced by Bresser-Pereira (1984, 1986) are offered, as long as suggestions for further research.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11452947
title: Eighteen years after Lucro, Acumulação e Crise: An analysis on economic development, technological progress and income distribution

description: ABSTRACT This paper revisits Bresser-Pereira’s (1984, 1986, 2002) integrated analysis on economic development, technological progress and functional income distribution. That analysis combines pure economic theory aspects and historical aspects in an innovative perspective. Criticisms about the succession of phases of capitalism development tentatively advanced by Bresser-Pereira (1984, 1986) are offered, as long as suggestions for further research.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11452335.v1
title: Inflationary tax and inflationary transfers in Brazil: 1947-2003

description: ABSTRACT This work updates, to 2003, the 1947-1992 series of inflation tax, inflationary transfers to commercial banks and total inflationary transfers previously published in Cysne (1994) and in Simonsen and Cysne (1995).
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11452335
title: Inflationary tax and inflationary transfers in Brazil: 1947-2003

description: ABSTRACT This work updates, to 2003, the 1947-1992 series of inflation tax, inflationary transfers to commercial banks and total inflationary transfers previously published in Cysne (1994) and in Simonsen and Cysne (1995).
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7562717
title: The Political Economy of Personnel Expenditures: Brazilian States, 1965-1994

description: ABSTRACT The main purpose of the paper is to test a model that explains variation in the ratio of expenditure with personnel in Brazilian states from 1965 to 1994. The independent variables include indicators of the political environment in the distinct states, such as number of veto players and level of political competition. Furthermore, variables that model the business electoral cycle and institutional changes during the period were also included in the model. The budgetary, electoral and legislative data were collected for 22 states from 1965 to 1995. OLS Regression with panel corrected standard errors was used to test the main hypotheses. Results indicate that the impact of political variables appears to be conditioned by the broader national institutional framework. During the authoritarian period expenditures with personnel were influenced by the electoral business cycle and by the presence of more than one party in the state legislature. In the democratic period, electoral vulnerability of state legislators and the electoral cycle are the most important political factors influencing expenditures with personnel.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7562717.v1
title: The Political Economy of Personnel Expenditures: Brazilian States, 1965-1994

description: ABSTRACT The main purpose of the paper is to test a model that explains variation in the ratio of expenditure with personnel in Brazilian states from 1965 to 1994. The independent variables include indicators of the political environment in the distinct states, such as number of veto players and level of political competition. Furthermore, variables that model the business electoral cycle and institutional changes during the period were also included in the model. The budgetary, electoral and legislative data were collected for 22 states from 1965 to 1995. OLS Regression with panel corrected standard errors was used to test the main hypotheses. Results indicate that the impact of political variables appears to be conditioned by the broader national institutional framework. During the authoritarian period expenditures with personnel were influenced by the electoral business cycle and by the presence of more than one party in the state legislature. In the democratic period, electoral vulnerability of state legislators and the electoral cycle are the most important political factors influencing expenditures with personnel.
DOI: 10.15468/dl.4ep8mm
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 86 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
{
 "TaxonKey" : [
 "is Moraea minor Eckl."
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 86 records from 19 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0054763-240321170329656/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
DOI: 10.15468/dl.qsteje
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 53 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
{
 "TaxonKey" : [
 "is Millettia capuronii Du Puy & Labat"
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 53 records from 7 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0054764-240321170329656/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
DOI: 10.15468/dl.8t7bte
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 15 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
{
 "TaxonKey" : [
 "is Melolobium stipulatum Harv."
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 15 records from 8 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0054765-240321170329656/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
DOI: 10.15468/dl.ck8uws
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 54 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
{
 "TaxonKey" : [
 "is Microcos opaca (Miq.) Burret"
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 54 records from 4 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0054766-240321170329656/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.