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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Brazilian Municipalities"”.
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Human Development and Regional Inequalities: Spatial Analysis Across Brazilian Municipalities
… instead of being applied universally across all municipalities. Third, a few spatial strategies are proposed as alternatives to implement 'pro-equality' policies. These strategies are based on the existence of spatial diffusion processes that take place in the study areas.
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Municipalização do trânsito e mobilidade urbana: análise do processo de transição da municipalização do trânsito para o plano de mobilidade urbana dos municípios de João Pessoa - PB e Cabedelo - PB
… innovations, including, as the imposition on municipalities, management's own traffic through the city of integration to the Sistema Nacional de Trânsito (SNT). This process provides the local administrator, under its jurisdiction, the implementation of a transit policy able to meet security …
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The effects of human capital and private investment in technology on economic structure
… I exploit a significant expansion in the Brazilian federal network of technological and professional education since 2002 as an instrument for human capital. Data are on human capital for Brazilian micro-regions from 2003 to 2015. Results indicated that higher levels of economic structure …
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Essays on Local Political Economy in Brazil and the United States
… These questions are examined in the context of Brazilian and US local governments. Individual chapter abstracts follow.</p> <p>Chapter 1: Research has consistently identified district magnitude as an important institutional factor in political competition. The most familiar of these formulations …
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Essays on Institutions, Ethnic Divisions and Poverty
… of the poor on the effect of oil revenue among Brazilian municipalities. The revenues local democratic governments depend upon increased significantly due to the sharp increase of offshore oil royalties and world oil prices from early 1990s to the early 2010s. This allows me to measure the …
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Imóveis urbanos abandonados: a responsabilidade do prefeito pela não arrecadação
… while symbolizing the structural collapse of Brazilian cities, conceal immense transformative potential — capable of reshaping the urban landscape, ensuring the realization of fundamental rights, and restoring the social function of property. Despite this transformative potential, such …
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The role of networks in political economy
… of federal drought relief transfers to Brazilian municipalities. We find that municipalities that are not aligned with the federal government have a lower probability of receiving funds conditional on experiencing low precipitation. However, we show that the presence of radio stations …
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Essays in applied econometrics
… chapter aims at estimating the Kuznets curve for Brazilian municipalities by using Bayesian Model Averaging and nonparametric model selection, and identifying the key determinants of economic inequality. Our results have shown lack of evidence for the existence of the Kuznets hypothesis, although …
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Análise da relação entre a corrupção e a desigualdade de renda nos municípios brasileiros
A presente tese analisa os principais aspectos teóricos e a relação causal entre corrupção e desigualdade de renda nos municípios brasileiros. Para isso, utilizamos a metodologia de variáveis instrumentais. Essa estratégia requer a utilização de uma variável exógena que afeta o nível de interesse, …