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This paper seeks to explain how the border effect interfered in the Goiás trade negotiations in 2009. This effect was empirically estimated by Poisson Pseudo-Maximum-Likelihood (PPML) estimator, using sectional data for the 20 main international trading partners of the State of Goiás plus the 26 Brazilian federative units. Even though Goiás is expanding the commercialized products through public policy incentives and through the entrepreneurial capacity of economic agents, the results found in this study indicate that the products marketed by Goiás are mostly agroindustry and that the Goiás trade between the Brazilian federative units is many times greater than trade with international regions, thus indicating a strong home bias. For the Brazilian federative units that share borders with Goiás, the results show that the trade is, on average, greater than with the others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the multilateral trading system's restraining role regarding the adoption of barriers to trade in goods and services as a reaction to the global economic and financial crisis. The paper analyses measures implemented by Brazil and other G20 countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last decades some trends have been intensified in the international trade. The main objective of this paper is to analyze these trends and the international insertion of Brasil in the globalization process. The methodology used was to compare the evolution of quantitative and qualitative data of the G-20 countries with Brazil. The results indicate that the insertion of Brazil does not follow recent changes and trends in international trade. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent behavior of the Brazilian labor market: 1992-2005. This study aims at describing the behavior of the Brazilian labor market between 1992 and 2005. This period comprises significant changes in the economic scenario, in the midst of the process of opening the economy to adjust to the prevailing international economic order. In the one hand, the paper focuses on the time evolution of the main labor market indicators, trying to identify trends and stylized facts. On the other, it emphasizes aspects related to spatial patterns, particularly in terms of the metropolitan versus non-metropolitan behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents Latin American and Asian perspectives on the biofuels emerging industry. The Brazilian's possibilities of participation on this industry evolution and the involvement on the world trade for ethanol and biodiesel are discussed. Also, an investigation about who will be the main "strategic" partners of Brazil in this sector is made: the huge consumer markets of developed countries or the emerging and also hungry consumers of energy Asian economies? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article seeks to analyze the reasons that stimulate the multilateral trade negotiations. The purpose is going to contribute for the comprehension about the basis (domestic and international) in the constitution of international coalitions, in the new context of the multilateral agenda. The international coalitions constitution trial has occupied central paper in the dynamic one of the multilateral and regional negotiations, in particular in what plays to the perspectives of the balance of forces center-periphery of the international system. The new thematic challenges about international trade and development introduce new studies about the international coalitions and alliances on the South level. This article analyzes the convergence and divergence of commercial interests between Brazil, India and Africa of the South, inside the chart of broader political-strategic interests, showing that the merely commercial aspects do not give to count of explain the kinds of alignments that are produced in the interior of the arena multilateral of commerce. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to describe the whole process of transportation of the soybeans produced in State of Mato Grosso and exported through Santos Seaport, and to show that it still exists many deficiencies in the infrastructure of this route, which generates very high costs. First of all, the cost of the highway transportation will be analyzed within the State of Mato Grosso, followed by a survey of the available options' costs to transport the soybeans from Mato Grosso to Santos Seaport where, the embarkment conditions will be discussed at end. The importance of this work resides in the fact that an evaluation of the economic costs was made on a complete chain of transport that includes highway, railroad and ship transportation of an important product of our export list, and because of its physical amount, the costs must be considered as a very important component of the process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to examine China's role in Brazilian foreign trade. Its main argument lies in the fact that China has become Brazil's biggest trading partner, a situation that accounts for more than a simple shift of hierarchy, but represents a transformation in their bilateral relations and in the very international system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]