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"Showing unambiguously that Brazil in fact enjoys a stable legal system which grants foreign direct investment the same material and procedural rights as national direct investment, the contributors to this book provide a truly informative and useful guide for those who work with law and policy in international investment."--Publisher's website
Explores the critical role citizens play in sustaining clientelism, despite threats of structural changes, institutional reforms, legal enforcement and partisan strategies.
Introduction : why agroecology? -- The scientific principles of agroecology -- The scientific evidence for agroecology : can it feed the world? -- Scaling up agroecology : social process and organization -- The politics of agroecology -- Conclusions : conform or transform?
In the past, foreign shocks arrived to national economies mainly through trade channels, and transmissions of such shocks took time to come into effect. However, after capital globalization, shocks spread to markets almost immediately. Despite the increasing macroeconomic dangers that the situation generated at emerging markets in the South, nobody at the North was ready to acknowledge the pro-cyclicality of the financial system and the inner weakness of “decontrolled” financial innovations because they were enjoying from the “great moderation.” Monetary policy was primarily centered on price stability objectives, without considering the mounting credit and asset price booms being ge...
Este livro integra o 4º volume da coleção dedicada aos 50 anos de emancipação político administrativa do município de Brasilândia/MS sob o título História e Memória de Brasilândia/MS reunindo e dando destaque aos eventos históricos que gravitam em torno da Infraestrutura Econômica e Social, O mundo Urbano e Rural que nos Rodeia, e a Administração Pública e o Desenvolvimento que este município empreendeu através dos eventos e realizações que marcaram a sua trajetória, bem como recupera os aspectos históricos das secretarias e programas desenvolvidos pelas administrações ao longo dos anos desta comunidade.
The first exhibition catalogue of the Pinacoteca de São Paulo was published in 1912, establishing a tradition in publications devoted to the institution's collections. This exhibition, which celebrates 100 years of graphic and editorial production of the Pinacoteca, features posters, invitations, brochures, catalogues and books, as well as original documents never before displayed in public.
The field of health is an increasingly complex and technical one; and an area in which a more multidisciplinary approach would undoubtedly be beneficial in many ways. This book presents papers from the conference ‘Health – Exploring Complexity: An Interdisciplinary Systems Approach’, held in Munich, Germany, from August 28th to September 2nd 2016. This joint conference unites the conferences of the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS), the German Society for Epidemiology (DGEpi), the International Epidemiological Association - European Region, and the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI). These societies already have long-standing e...