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The dissertation discusses the dynamics of long-term, determination and ranking of world capitalism in the work of Theotonio dos Santos. interest in this work is justified by the importance of the two topics in the Latin American social thought, and his theoretical journey, traveling between two strands of the theory of development: the Marxist Theory of Dependency (MTD), which was co-founder, and Theory of World- Systems (TWS), which became one of the greatest expone ion without a break, but based on the change of focus of the development underdeveloped in Latin America for the global system of capitalist accumulation. The ve of the author always sought unity in a continuous movement between social subjects, the structural elements (both private and general) of capitalism and their periodic trends, long term and establishes a relationship between economic factors and non-economic, especially the politicians, the stage of capitalism emerged in the post World War II, lly in peripheral countries, especially Latin America. The intention of the dissertation is to contribute to the identification of theoretical and methodological approach implicit in the thinking of Theotonio dos Santos, featured here in the binomial conceptual direction of development and regulation of the dynamics , methodological approach developed during production of the author and manifested in the transition of MTD the TWS results in its attempt to grasp the operation, composition, evolution and trends of global capitalism as a system, and would be a valuable contribution to a synthesis of Marxist theory of development.

Given the enormous environmental devastation caused in large part by unrestricted use of natural resources, it is fundamental to develop alternative means of production, guided by efficiency and sustainability . In this scenario, emerging industrial ecosystems, characterized by being formed clusters through a network of firms linked by an ecological, social and economic logic. These clusters can be encouraged from adequate to its emergence and development environment. The research can be classified as descriptive, qualitative nature, emerged from the need to develop alternative means of production. According to the international literature review it appears that aspects related to public initiatives, laws and private initiatives are suitable to create favorable conditions for the development of this type of arrangement means product. This elements make up what, for the purposes of this research will be named the macro environment of formation of industrial ecosystems. The overall objective is to identify the variables used worldwide to study the macro environment where training initiatives of industrial ecosystems emerge, as well as analyzing the behavior of the domestic macro environment to observe it through these same variables. As a result it was found a consistent analysis model, and apply it to the Brazilian case there has been a set of policies such as the National Environmental Policy pursuing sustainable development, but for these policies are quite sparse, and the Brazil present some peculiarities, due to its historical origins, the large territory and little environmental awareness, we can not say that there are concise for industrial symbiosis stimuli.

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The topic explains a number of factors that influence on trade integration and regional inequalities both in Southern Africa and in Angola. So is this part of Africa that Angola is part where we find the Development Community (SADC). Although this is the most emerging economic bloc on the continent still presents major inequalities mainly in the field of trade integration, setting off on a very slow socioeconomic development and a less conjugated equality among their members, despite the efforts of the governments of this community. In general, governments have made tremendous efforts to reduce these effects, but the indicators still show that they are far from reaching them. Regarding regional differences in Angola, it was found that due to certain economic operations since 2002, comes to registering significant increases in Gross Domestic Product mirroring in large sums of wealth that the country has accumulated in recent years. However, this wealth does not bring about significant changes in infrastructure to support economic development, such as in the energy and water supply among others, creating in this way, vast inequalities between regions, influencing in some way the quality of life the populations of some regions. Furthermore, the analyzed data indicate that regions always showed signs of development since colonization remain the same and, in the case of the Metropolis and the Central East region where the main capital of Angola. However, it is observed that much of the wealth of the country since the colonial era mostly less developed, eg, the North (coffee and oil as the main sources of wealth of the country) and Middle East region has regions (mainly in Lunda Norte and Lunda Sul -. diamond mining and non-oil energy, etc.) thus creating a paradox. Despite these inconsistencies, the government has proved very engaged in ways to eliminate the major factors that have influenced these very striking inequalities between regions. Thus, the study aims to examine regional inequalities in the context of southern Africa and in Angola, scaling inequalities in economic development, especially economic activity and infrastructure. Moreover, the method most widely used in the research was to collect data through the analysis of documents, in addition to books and articles. Some of the results indicate that in terms of trade, the countries of the region are not willing to trade among themselves, since many of them are in disadvantage against the other. In Angola, the origin of inequality is not new, however, already has a long history, from the time of Portuguese colony and civil war. Thus, it is recommended that regions of Africa in general must unite and create policies that make up the reality of the continent itself. Regarding Angola, the state should create favorable conditions for economic infrastructure as quickly as possible in order to reduce regional disparities.

Poverty, as a matter of individual privation, is a complex and heterogeneous socioeconomic phenomenon. The present work intends to analyze both the historical determinants, after 1960, of the formation of poverty in Brazilian rural households and the causes of its recent reduction (2002-2009) between the elements income and income inequality. Therefore, the concept of poverty is approached, and the Foster, Greer & Thorbecke index (1984) is used for the analysis. The methodological procedure is divided into two steps: (i) initially, the elasticities poverty-income growth and poverty-income inequality are estimated via the Generalized Method of Moments system applied to panel data, according to Datt and Ravallion (1992), Pinto and Oliveira (2010) and Kalwji and Verschoor (2004); (ii) posteriorly, the elasticities of productive activities towards the variation in rural poverty are estimated via static panel data with fixed effects. The descriptive statistics and estimates of the coefficients are related to microdata of the Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (2002 a 2009), provided by the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística. The main contributions and advances of this research fall into two aspects: it points out the heterogeneity in the performance of economic growth policies and the role of income inequality reduction, both conditioned to the peculiarities of each observation unit, in decreasing rural poverty in Brazil; it presents the importance of the branches of working rural activities with greatest potential to reduce the poverty in the rural area of the country, which has not yet received appropriate attention in economic literature and which provides relevant information to elaborate and conduct public policies. The literature review suggests that rural poverty is a result of the Brazilian process of capitalistic accumulation, associated to the State action. Besides, the results of the estimates indicate that both the elevation of income and the reduction of inequalities are efficient mechanisms to poverty decrease, being one of its effects over time conditioned to the initial development level and to the concentration of initial income in the observation unit. It is possible to perceive the negative correlation between the main labor income and the rural household poverty, this one being more sensitive to people allocated in non-agricultural activities of the service sector.

The objective of the dissertation is to place the Course of Administration of Companies inside of the reality of the neoliberal capitalism, the international agents' of financing demands, FMI and World Bank, that place the education as an educational market, to show the importance of the Course of Administration of Companies in the job market and at the same time, to place him/it front to the new educational paradigms. And to clear that the old paradigms, autocracy and distrust, conformism and individualism used in the managerial administration, no longer they are framed more in current reality, to look for new alternatives and to apply them to the administration of new businesses in a world more and more complex, globalization and under influences of radical changes promoted by the Third Industrial Revolution, the economy of the information. And that, with the implantation of the flexibility of tasks and functions in the work doesn't pronounce with an organization whose structure was conceived as a net of positions, where each position was already per-defined in terms of attributions and hierarchical relationships. And with the coming of the economy globalization and to strong influence of the progresses of the communication means and of the allied computer science resources to changes of paradigm of the science they don't hold a teaching in the universities that you is characterized by a practice pedagogic conservative, repetitive and critical and, for that it is that you intends a change in the Courses of Administration by a Pedagogic Project in consonance with the demands of the contemporary society, observing the guidelines of the Law 9394/98 in what refers to the higher education and the orientations of the National Council of Administration, the Course of Administration of FACH, has as commitment the human being integral formation, that constitutes instrument of construction of the citizenship - the human competence of doing subjects , professionals with social and ethical responsibility professional.

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The present work aims at analyzing the transport infrastructure in Brazil, with a focus on the Plano Nacional de Logística e Transporte (PNLT), highlighting investments, matrix and regional setting. For this, there was a brief historical survey of facing investment in transport infrastructure in the Brazil national policies. This Plan has significant importance because it marks the rescue of planning in the medium and long term the sector in the country\'s history. The previous and the nature of PNLT are presented and discussed as they were encompassed the main modal encompassed in the plan: the waterway, the pipeline, mainly, rail and road. This paper work up the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the evolution of these modes, using data from the Banco de Informações e Mapas de Transportes (BIT) and the Confederação Nacional de Transporte (CNT), among others, as well as joint investment on Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento (PAC) distributed by region, considering the division by state and regions. The study confirms the relevance of PNLT to resume planning of transport infrastructure in the country, identifying an increase in infrastructure investments and measures in favor of restoring the transport matrix in a favorable macroeconomic context. Nevertheless, there is no indication, in principle, of relevant changes in the regional setting, given the continuing concentration of investments in regions of higher economic dynamics.

The purpose of this work is conceiving theoretically a firm in the post-Keynesian perspective, which is able to contribute to the heterodox microeconomic literature, especially the theory of the firm. In particular, Keynes criticism to the neoclassical is a forerunner in the search of elements that are able to outline the post-Keynesian firm. It starts with the notion of monetary production economy, the way in which Keynes conceptualized capitalist economies, through the non-neutrality of money, the active role that the business man has on the economy and thus the firm in which it operates, without forgetting to highlight the epistemological and environmental uncertainty. It is on this basis that the post-Keynesian turn to the microeconomic approach, highlighting, albeit in a diffuse way, elements such as pricing and production assets and investment market, competitiveness, technological performance, among others, meeting, will serve as constituents of the firm outlined in this paper. Without a particular firm defined, the strategy of this work was guided to seek a mirror to what is meant by firm in literature elsewhere, as namely the Resource Based View (RBV). From a concept of a firm already formed, the RBV provides guidance for the elements to get noticed amidst the diverse and scattered contributions developed by Keynes and the Post Keynesians.

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Many actors have recognized the interdependence between environmental crisis experienced by humanity and the unsustainable economic activities. By the way, they have advocated changes in production structures for the establishment of development initiatives that could promote the conservation of ecosystem services. In this regard, the Industrial Ecology approach advocates industry restructuring in a cyclical model of material and energy flows, i.e., in the form of an industrial ecosystem. Industrial ecosystem raises the economic performance of the business and mitigates waste and pollution problems through symbiotic exchanges between companies; indeed, it constitutes a strategy to promote sustainable development in the interfirm level. This work emerges from the following question: What are the patterns and trends of the dissemination of scientific knowledge built on industrial ecosystems? Based on bibliometric techniques, the overall objective of this study is to characterize global and Brazilian publication about industrial ecosystems. It is a descriptive research which uses quantitative methods. The methodology of the bibliographic portfolio composition covered sequential procedures which began with the definition of search tools for papers in specific databases, followed by filtering the collected publications. The primary data for the bibliometric analysis were obtained from the extraction of bibliographic elements of the cataloged texts. The results corroborate the hypotheses adopted, showing that: i) in fact, the scientific community aroused his attention to the solutions provided by industrial ecosystems; there was an increase in the number of papers published since the mid-1990s; and ii) despite the emergence of industrial ecosystems as one of the most influential perspectives in the dialogue between industry and environment in various disciplines, economics still remains reticent to insert these discussions in its theoretical body.

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The general objective of this work was to determine the existence of a relationship between environmentally sound disposal of municipal solid waste and population health. Three hypotheses had be tested: (i) the existence of landfill in a municipality improves the health conditions of their residents; (ii) the quality of landfills also influences the health status of the population; and (iii) municipalities that \"export\" their waste to other municipalities may have different epidemiological indicators from others. For this, there were econometrics estimates; including the adoption of an identification strategy based the health literature. The results do not refuted any of the hypotheses. Such evidence are important in function of the economic activities be intense in exploitation of natural resources (materials and energy) and, at the same time, it produces waste and has the waste in places, not always environmentally friendly. On the one hand, the pattern of mass production, usually adopted by firms, does not reflect without some kind of incentive (economic or regulatory), about how their products and / or by-products can be reused, recycled or reintegrated into a new cycle productive, either on the impact of his return to the environment. On the other hand, the growing population consumption ends up causing more and more solid waste and waste. In this perspective, one must reflect on the way that these solid wastes and tailings should have their destination and final disposal on the environment. If it held precariously, they can cause environmental problems (e.g., through the contamination of soil, surface and groundwater by leachate and air pollution by methane gas and the carbon dioxide) and social, including on population health. Most studies founded deal with the relationship between sanitation, specifically water supply and sanitation, and health, there is a gap on the solid waste management services, in particular the final disposal of these, what motivates this dissertation and points out to the relevance of the results.

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Technological innovation investments has played an important role in the development of firms and countries in the recent world scenario. Considering the high costs incurred in innovative effort, with its risks and uncertainty, the performance of public institutions to foster development is crucial to the promotion of technological development. The goal of this work is to discuss the role of innovation support policies and analyze the performance of the main federal institutions of technological innovation in Brazil: BNDES (Brazilian National Bank for Social and Economic Development) and FINEP (Funding of Studies and Projects). The results show that in the last decade, innovation policy instruments have become more comprehensive, and that there is complementarity between the instruments offered by these two agencies.

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