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The contextualization of the finances of the state of Rio de Janeiro, especially in the face of the economic crisis that the state has faced, justifies this study. The methodology applied is qualitative, bibliographical and documental, and theoretical-empirical content analysis for the period 2013-2022. The specific objective is to identify the effects of fiscal policies on economic growth in the state of Rio de Janeiro and to seek an answer to the following question: can fiscal policies be improved to achieve economic growth and fiscal sustainability, so that public policies can guarantee social welfare in the state? Investigating the preponderant causes of the fiscal crisis shows us that the state's fiscal situation and future prospects depend on the ability to overcome obstacles of a political nature, which can hinder the fiscal outcome of the measures to be adopted. The priority should be to debate in depth the appropriate level of subsidized credit for the private sector and which sectors should benefit from it, considering its cost and benefit in the medium and long term, compared to other fiscal policies and alternatives for financing private investment, in order to guarantee economic growth and the fiscal sustainability of government policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The central issue of this article is the mechanistic myth of past economic theories and models that have been imported from the experiences of central countries or even crafted in Latin America. These theories advocate for abstract growth and economic development without considering the heterogeneity of different historical contexts and the detrimental effects of their implementation on traditional ways of life and the environment that occur when applying them. These mechanistic principles have encompassed both orthodox and heterodox economies, including neoclassical and neoliberal approaches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Institutionalization of Metropolitan Regions in Brazil is theoretically expected to bring benefits to these areas and their resident population. This text reflects on the political discourse both in favor of and against the establishment of the Metropolitan Region of Feira de Santana (RMFS), which was approved in 2011, in order to identify the interests that moved the realization (or not) of such discourse. The goal is to examine whether these interests align with the established objectives and whether the promises made are justifiable. The methodology employed involved bibliographic research and documentary analysis. In Brazil, a portion of the solution to reduce regional inequalities and promote economic growth has been justified by political discourses predicting benefits for municipalities within the Metropolitan Region (RM). In the case of RMFS, the rhetoric in favor of its creation aimed to secure resources to benefit the interests of municipal political representatives, particularly those in the main city. Conversely, those opposing it aimed primarily to increase the number of municipalities under their control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article aims to develop a theoretical analysis relating ecofeminism and ecosocialism to gender relations and environmental protection. The problem question is: How is gender sustainability possible through ecosocialism? In order to answer it, we started from the perception of gender inequality and violations of women's rights through ecofeminist philosophy. We then argued for a socialist eco-feminist position for effective sustainable development and identified the relationship between eco-socialist foundations and their relationship with fraternity as a legal concept of social duties and, from this, we argued for a socialist eco-feminist position for effective sustainable development beyond economic growth. A deductive approach and bibliographic and documentary methods were used. In the end, it was possible to ascertain that the perspectives pointed out, as well as being correlated, present themselves as an appropriate path towards an effective sustainable human experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Rural credit is a type of financing aimed at individual producers, associations and cooperatives, and is intended to promote agricultural production. Through it, it is possible to make financial investments, expand operations and fund the production and sale of goods, and thus obtain greater profits. It is made available by public and private credit entities and its main objective is to contribute to the rural production development policy in the country. With the financing, producers get money to invest in technology, improving their infrastructure and increasing productivity. This article seeks to identify the role of rural credit in the economic growth of Brazil during the period 1974 to 2018, considering the importance of access to agricultural credit for the development of the rural sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article aims discuss banking reforms of the 1990s, which consolidated the Chinese state and the architecture of its financial system, establishing a circuit based on the finance-investment-saving-funding logic. This circuit provides an increase in the volume of financing, conditioning the growth of the industry and the formation of large state business conglomerates, including the financial sector. The financial system, through voluminous financial resources, mainly via credit, directed the level of expenditure of agents and the real variables of the economy such as product and employment. The result of this process is a clear movement of interest from this market in the search for a share of the large profit presented. In this way, it managed to overcome its development delay, demonstrating that it is possible to accelerate and improve the quality of economic growth through the development and centralization of financial intermediation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper investigates the path of the profit rate and its components in Brazil between 1950 and 2020. The high growth in developmentalism, 1950-1980, in contrast to the great stagnation in neoliberalism, 1980-2020, is interpreted based on the rate of profit and its components: the profit share, the productivity of capital and the level of capacity utilization. The fall in the rate of profit due to the decline in capital productivity resulted in a slowdown in the rate of capital accumulation and economic growth. In the 1980-2020 period there was a structural break in the relationship between productive investment and profits with the adoption of neoliberalism, the same profit rate resulted in lower capital accumulation. The great stagnation is explained by the fall in the profit rate and the adoption of neoliberalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The main aim of this work was to verify the effects of credit on the economic growth of the municipalities of Espírito Santo, in the period from 2006 to 2018, using spatial econometrics for panel data. According to the results, all estimated spatial models revealed significant spatial effects, and the Durbin spatial model (SDM) presented the best fit when using the Akaike information criterion (AIC). The main results show that the variables credit supply and number of branches, without spatial lag, were significant and positively correlated with the economic growth of the municipalities. In addition, there were spatial spillover effects of the variables credit supply, number of branches and GDP per capita on the economic growth of municipalities. It is noteworthy that the variables number of branches and GDP per capita had a positive spatial relationship with economic growth, while the spatially lagged supply of credit had a negative relationship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The role of modal infrastructure in economic growth is under constant debate among policymakers. This work aims to evaluate the effect of road concessions on the economic growth of Santa Catarina from 2007 to 2018. To achieve this goal, the model of differences in differences was used in its traditional and spatial version. In general, in the fixed effect estimates, the results showed that there is a positive effect of concessions on the GDP per capita of the municipalities and that there is a positive spillover effect mainly in the period from 2014 to 2016. These results may indicate that the improvement in infrastructure reduces the cost of transport, which facilitates labor mobility, generating agglomeration economies in more developed cities, given that the municipalities that received the concessional stretches are in regions with higher GDP per capita. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This work analyzes the dynamic effects generated by public investments on private investments in machinery and equipment in Brazil, between 1996 and 2018. Theories based on the principle of effective demand support the hypothesis formulated about the complementarity between public and private investments. We have developed an analytical scheme that identifies the induction channels for public investments for private ones, through demand and supply sides of the economy. From an empirical point of view, the work uses the specification of the econometric model of Autoregressive Vectors (VAR) that allows treating public investments as exogenous to the system. The results show that an increase in public investments boosts private investments during the analyzed period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The growth of Brazilian urbanization in recent decades has pointed to a spatial deconcentration in the sense that medium-sized cities have grown more than the large metropolises. In this context, the study sought to identify these growth patterns, using models of spatial econometrics and tested the hypothesis of conditional convergence of these cities in Northeast Brazil. Estimates were made considering two periods: 1991-2000 and 1991-2016. The robustness of the tests pointed to the need to incorporate the neighborhood effect in econometric models. Thus, spatial error models (SEM) and spatial lag model (SLM) were estimated. The tests indicated the SEM model as more appropriate. Thus, the conditional convergence hypothesis was accepted. That is, smaller medium-sized cities grow faster than larger ones and all in the direction of long-term equilibrium. Better infrastructure, health and per capita income act to increase economic growth, whereas illiteracy and income concentration have the opposite effect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To think the regional question is to understand that there is a need to overcome certain disparities reproduced in the territory. The study in question aims to adopt a set of methods of quantitative analysis with the objective of investigating the economic growth of the municipalities of the state of Ceará in terms of productive structure. In order to reach the proposed objective, methodologically, five determinants were extracted through factor analysis, namely: economic structure (F1), agricultural structure (F2), livestock structure (F3), planting structure (F4) and extractive structure (F5). Municipal GDP was regressed against these five factors as explanatory variables, controlling for spatial effects. The results show that the most appropriate model is the spatial Durbin model (SDM), revealing that a high GDP in the municipality (i) has a positive impact on the economic growth of the neighboring municipality (j). In addition, municipalities with more advanced productive structures have similar characteristics and are spatially concentrated, especially near the coastal strip of the state. All factors had a direct positive impact on GDP, but in relation to F3, F4 and F5, these present negative spatial spillovers in the economic growth of the neighboring municipality. Finally, the spatial effects were relevant to analyze the economic growth and spatial distribution of the productive activities of the municipalities of Ceará. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article "Development of the financial market and economic growth: Evidence on causality in Brazil" analyzes the relationship between the development of the financial market and economic growth in Brazil. Granger causality tests were conducted between the Ibovespa and five variables that measure the country's economic growth. The results indicated the existence of unidirectional causality, meaning that the development of the financial market is an indicator of the performance of the Brazilian economy. This relationship has been the subject of studies and debates in the economic literature, with different perspectives on the existence and direction of this relationship. The results of the study suggest that a stronger financial market contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources and promotes economic growth. [Extracted from the article]

The insurance sector, open supplementary pension and capitalization sector has shown great advances in the supply of new products and services from 2003 to 2020, and consistently showing a growth in the volume of revenues and their participation in the national economy. From the perspective of efficient resource allocation, long-term savings and risk management, the insurance market has also been contributing to greater efficiency and economic growth in the national financial sector. In this sense, the purpose of this paper is to present a sector analysis of the insurance market in Brazil. Therefore, the work will be carried out based on the Structure-Conduct-Performance (SCP) model. Among the main results of the research, it is noteworthy that the sector is classified as a low-concentration oligopoly, as well as has high barriers to entry associated, mainly, with the national regulatory system; in terms of conduct, current innovations are affecting both the structure and performance of the insurance market, in addition to the recent growth in mergers and acquisitions operations; finally, it is worth highlighting the high financial results of the sector in recent years analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to incorporate explicitly the twin deficits theory in a stock-flow consistent model to analyze the impact of fiscal policy and public debt dynamics in a post- Keynesian model, investigating the effects and limitations. Even rejecting many neoclassical hypotheses, fiscal policy has limitation to stimulate permanently economic growth because if it’s incompatible with balance of payment equilibrium, net external debt would rise and become unsustainable. Finally, this hypothesis is tested empirically and it is verified that the dynamics of the fiscal policy and external position are associated when specified according to Godley and Cripps (1983) and modified by Pérez Caldentey (2007). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Economic literature has highlighted that infrastructure investment shows positive externalities which foster the economic growth. Based upon the Post-Keynesian perspective, the aims of this article are twofold: i) to explain the interactions among infrastructure, conventions, expectations and aggregate private investment, summarized in what Keynes called technically social investment; ii) to show in theoretical terms that discontinuities of infrastructure investments reduce the sensitivities of private aggregate investment in relation to its determinants, with economic policy implications. In the Post- Keynesian view, private investment is volatile and sensitive to changes in conventions and expectations. We show that infrastructure spending stimulates private investments because it reduces uncertainty and coordinates the emergence of private conventions and expectations that foster private investments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The main objective of this work is to bring a different perspective from that presented in previous works on the “development process” in Furtado’s thought. In line with his methodological writings, we argue that Furtado extrapolated, in his formulation of the “development process”, the limits of economic science, thus diverging from conventional economic growth models. Furthermore, we emphasize that the referred author managed to combine, in a creative manner, different aspects of the previous formulations on economic development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of the article is to empirically analyze the economic growth regimes in Brazil from 2000 to 2015. In theoretical terms, we follow the augmented neo-Kaleckian model proposed by Palley (2016). Therefore, we incorporate in the analysis the role of the personal and functional distribution of income. In empirical terms, we use a vector autoregressive model. The results suggest that the growth regime of the Brazilian economy was wage-led. This means that capital accumulation and aggregate demand were favored by policies to reduce inequality in the labor market and personal income. Based on the results, we discussed the Brazilian model, arguing in favor of adopting a growth model that can reconcile income distribution and export incentive policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper used the Mankiw, Romer and Weil (1992) model, with crosssection and panel data and spatial controls, to analyze the influence of spatial phenomena on inequality and economic growth in Brazilian municipalities between 1980-2010. The results indicated that reducing spatial heterogeneity (e.g.: differences in culture, preferences and natural resources) helps to combat inequalities, while the absence of spatial spillovers (from trade, technological diffusion and migration, for instance) tends to worsen it. Ignoring these spatial effects would result in underestimations of the rate of income convergence and overestimates about the returns on physical capital and human capital. Finally, being close to a "central place", as in the case of state capitals, seems to facilitate the economic growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article discusses the intersection of race, gender and class in the production of inequalities experienced by domestic workers in Brazil and how these inequalities are accentuated in the context of a pandemic crisis. Based on an analysis of the data issued by the Brazilian National Household Sample Survey (Pnad-Contínua) and on interviews with domestic workers in the metropolitan region of Goiânia, we examine the inequalities in the relationship between work and family, considering aspects related to working conditions, the use of time and domestic arrangements. The results indicate that the pandemic, preceded and intensified by a harsh context of economic recession and expansion of policies for the flexibilization of labor rights, has amplified historically structural inequalities in the occupation. These elements affect the everyday lives of domestic workers, reorganizing domestic arrangements and their temporal experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We develop a theoretical model that explains the relationship between credit constraints and economic growth in the context of a three-sector economy, including an "extractive" sector. The model belongs in the structuralist tradition and it is inspired by the Colombian economy. In contrast to neoclassic development economics models, we prove that: 1) relaxing the credit crunch would foster formal sector growth but it may nevertheless not imply formal employment growth; and 2) the economy can converge to a pattern where the extractive sector increases while the formal one shrinks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Vale S.A. mining company is a transnational company, present in 30 countries, and one of the largest mining companies in the world. In the Brazilian Amazon, it has operated for more than three decades, mainly with the Grande Carajás Program and recently with the S11D Project, a project to expand iron ore extraction activities in the Serra de Carajás, in the state of Pará. Through Discourse and Enunciation Analysis (VERÓN, 2004), this research examines how the discourses produced on the mining company's website are constructed in the page entitled "S11D Eliezer Batista Complex", based on the development ideals disclosed by the company. The S11D is considered by critics in the mining sector to be the continuation of the PGC, now with the prospect of doubled profits. The analysis considered that the mining company contributes to the construction of ideals on development in the Amazon, based on the idea of economic growth, ignoring the discourses that represent the territories and social subjects of the region where it operates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article aims to analyze the effects of pro-poor growth in Brazil considering the states' heterogeneity. For this, the panel data regression model with information from the Continuous PNAD from 2012 to 2019 was estimated. The variables analyzed were: average income (proxy to economic growth), income inequality, average schooling of people aged 25 and over, and the informality rate in the labor market. It is also intended to assess the relative importance of each of these variables in determining poverty in the country. The results showed that education and economic growth were pro-poor, while high income inequality and informality are factors that hinder poverty reduction. Schooling had the greatest impact on poverty reduction followed by a drop in income inequality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The impact of public debt on economic growth is the subject of several studies in the economic literature. However, there is a gap in relation to cross-country analyzes on the subject, especially at the level of States that have been poorly studied and are the ones in the worst situation among federative entities, with their deteriorated revenues and accumulated debts to the Federal Government. This paper sought to verify the effect of public indebtedness on the economic growth of the Brazilian states. The regression econometric model with SystemGMM panel data was used for the 27 federative units of Brazil, comprising the period between 2000 and 2014. The results of the study pointed to a negative relation of debt in relation to economic growth, when considered the immediate temporal aspect. However, a positive relation was verified when confirming its effect on the lag, confirming the initial hypothesis that debt has positive effects on economic growth, showing that it is plausible to use debt to cover expenditures in productive areas, which would not be possible with the collection, given the level of commitment of the budget with current expenditures. Therefore, this work brings contributions related to the formulation and evaluation of public policies, considering that it offers conclusions that indicate that the strategic use of indebtedness, when directed to productive sectors, can stimulate the economic growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]