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This paper contributes to the empirical literature about the Brazilian regional disequilibrium, once it examines,in the post-Real Plan period, the economic performance of each region of the country in terms of pro-poor growth - growth with reduced inequality - and of the social welfare. To this, it is used the methodology present in Kakwani, Neri and Son (2006) to evaluate the behavior of social welfare from the distributions of familiar income and wage income in each region. Furthermore, it is investigated the contribution of labor market indicators in the performance of regions. In general, the results indicate that the greatest impacts on employment income and on social welfare were due to the labour force participation rate, and mainly, to increased productivity of workers from 2003, which in turn, were mainly motivated by increases in the average returns from the education of employed persons. However,these gains were not sufficient to establish a pattern of growth more strongly pro-poor in the North and Northeast, which could have contributed to a closer in terms of income and welfare of these regions for other Brazilian regions

Since the mid 1990’s, Brazilian companies have faced a huge structural reform associated with trade liberalisation, deregulation and decrease of state intervention.In this context, they have been pressured to behave in a more socially and environmentally responsible manner. The objective of this paper is to identify whether environmental strategies were influenced by degree of internationalization, size and stakeholders’ pressures. It was used the strategy of case study with the technique of systematic interviews for primary data collection. The research was conducted in petrochemical, steel, textile and shoe industries, established in different Brazilian states, chosen by theoretical sampling. The empirical results demonstrate that modern preventive natural environmental approaches seem clear in large companies that have international investors and operate in global markets. It is markable in the steel and petrochemical companies. The study finds that the structural reform has caused a positive environmental effect on Brazilian companies because global ties increase self-regulation pressures and enforces the engagement of a new range of stakeholders.

No Ceará, a importância da cadeia agroindustrial do camarão cultivado pode ser constatada pelo número de carcinicultores que se dedicam a essa atividade, pela extensão das áreas ocupadas com a carcinicultura, pelo valor da produção e pela capacidade de gerar empregos, contribuindo para o desenvolvimento local. O Ceará é líder nacional em produtividade dos viveiros (produtividade da terra) possuindo em seu território, mais precisamente no Município de Acaraú, a fazenda recordista mundial no que se refere a esse indicador. Com a crescente demanda pelo produto no mercado externo, sinalizada pelas instituições relacionadas com o desenvolvimento da atividade e com advento da tecnologia de se cultivar o camarão marinho em água doce, foi impulsionada a entrada de novos adeptos à atividade, sobretudo nos últimos dois anos. Então, diante da importância que a carcinicultura ganhou na economia do Estado e o crescente ganho de produtividade, objetivou-se analisar se os carcinicultores estavam realizando a atividade de forma eficiente, tanto no que diz respeito à parte técnica, utilizando quantidades de insumos adequadas para certo nível de produção, como na parte de alocação de recursos, dada a relação de preços entre os insumos, resultando numa possível análise de eficiência econômica. Para tanto, utilizou-se a análise envoltória de dados (DEA), em uma amostra de 68 carcinicultores. A DEA consiste em um modelo não paramétrico que compara, entre si, todos os carcinicultores da amostra representativa de uma população de 210 carcinicultores. Assim, um carcinicultor é considerado ineficiente quando existe pelo menos outro carcinicultor na amostra que produz certa quantidade de camarão, utilizando, proporcionalmente, menos insumos. Os resultados do modelo indicaram que, sob a pressuposição de retornos constantes à escala, 38 carcinicultores foram considerados tecnicamente eficientes obtendo medidas de eficiência técnica dentro do intervalo de 0,9 a 1,0 , o que equivale a 55,88% da amostra. Os outros 30 carcinicultores forma considerados tecnicamente ineficientes e que necessitavam reduzir a quantidade utilizada de seus insumos em média, 19,11% para que atingissem a eficiência técnica máxima. De posse dos preços dos insumos utilizados no modelo DEA, os quais foram adicionados nos problemas de programação linear sob pressuposição de retornos constantes à escala, foram calculadas as medidas de eficiência alocativa e de custos que indicaram a necessidade de redução, tanto na ineficiência de combinação dos insumos em proporções constantes à escala,foram calculadas as medidas de eficiência alocativa e de custos que indicaram a necessidade de redução, tanto na ineficiência de combinação dos insumos em proporções adequadas, dadas as relações de seus preços, bem como nos custos de produção de forma a maximizar o lucro, independentemente dos carcinicultores pertencerem ao grupo dos eficientes tecnicamente ou não. Essas reduções foram, em média, 39% e 44,70%, respectivamente. O modelo permitiu ainda calcular as possíveis reduções no uso dos insumos pelos ineficientes, tendo como referência os eficientes, de forma que se todos os insumos fossem reduzidos, na proporção sugerida pelo modelo, obter-se-ia, em média, uma redução de 31,82% no custo operacional total dos ineficientes sem prejudicar a produção. Feito isso, os produtores eficientes da amostra foram caracterizados com base no perfil tecnológico. Numa análise mais genérica, observou-se que esses carcinicultores atingiram elevados níveis de adoção da tecnologia recomendada pelas instituições que promovem o desenvolvimento sustentável da atividade–Associação Brasileira de Criadores de Camarão – ABCC e o Departamento de Pesca e Aqüicultura do Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e do Abastecimento – DPA/MAPA, revelando-se, então, o porquê de terem sido considerados eficientes. Os resultados da análise de eficiência na produção de camarão marinho em cativeiro levam a concluir que o sucesso da atividade no Estado do Ceará decorreu muito mais da eficiência técnica dos carcinicultores do que da capacidade deles combinarem da melhor maneira possível os insumos, dadas a relação dos preços dos insumos (eficiência alocativa),tendo em vista os valores das medidas de eficiência técnica e alocativa, que, respectivamente, foram, em média, 0,907 e 0,610. Em virtude dessa má combinação dos insumos utilizados, pode-se concluir que, em média, os carcinicultores que representaram o Estado do Ceará obtiveram uma eficiência econômica total de 55,33% (0,907 x 0,610), o que, apesar da enorme lucratividade do setor, revela que os carcinicultores cearenses estão “perdendo dinheiro”, ou seja, deixando de alcançar o lucro máximo.

This paper analyzes the process of agricultural county convergence in the state of Ceará using a threshold model in the period from 1970 to 1996. The results show the existence of four clubs of convergence. One formed by the group of richer counties; another one by the group of poor counties and two intermediate groups. The results intra-clubs show that both human capital and physical capital are important to explain the growth process of Ceará´s agriculture. On the other hand land is important only for the two richer clubs.

This study shows the enormous gap on libraries communication with users as one of the most important difficulty to understand libraries organization and structure. It results from a research conducted in three libraries and the main objective was to observe, analyse and describe library user behaviour in front of the subject representation. Subject representation is an information retrieval tool that identifies access conditions to libraries. This work also intended to evaluate difficulties by users of the symbols that represent the knowledge.

This work presents a comparative study between libraries and supermarkets. Its main goal is to observe, to analyze and to describe the behaviour of libraries’ users, in face of subject representation used as a tool of information retrieval, identifying the conditions of access in libraries, shown by users as a difficulty on comprehension of the symbology used in the representation of knowledge. The supermarkets are used as instruments of comparison through the similarity found between libraries and the techniques of sales’ marketing used with success in the supermarkets to identify the uses and choices of their clients in order to direct them to significant results. The applicability of these techniques in libraries would lead, eventually, to much more effective results, regarding the comprehension of the representation, the use of retrieval tools and the access to information.

This study focuses on assessing institutional and thematic focus as the subject to evaluate the quality of university libraries, aiming to make a general diagnosis of the quality of university libraries and its association with the outcomes of courses in ENADE, based on the opinions of students . Specifically, it is intended: to determine the degree of user satisfaction with the acquis, its sufficiency and update and check suitability of physical facilities for the users as the air conditioning, lighting and acoustics; check the users' satisfaction in relation to computer equipment available and furniture, knowing the users 'satisfaction regarding attendance and verify the users' satisfaction regarding the opening hours of the library. The literature of the area focuses on the evolution of theories of learning assessment, the various perspectives of the concept of quality in education. Contextualized within the state reforms the development of evaluation systems already deployed by the Brazilian state, highlighting the PAIUB, NEC and National System of Higher Education Assessment (SINAES). Presents a summary of the trajectory of Brazilian university libraries, focusing on the major issues in planning and evaluation. Addresses the management of service quality in university libraries, as well as the relationship between these units of information with academic activities. Contextualizes the study environment, presenting a brief history of the creation of the Federal University of Ceará. The research is exploratory and used as a technical procedure to collect the data field study ex post facto. The sample was chosen on the basis of grades obtained by the courses in ENADE. Data were collected through questionnaire and analyzed using the software Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), which provided the calculation of measures of location average, median and mode. Through analysis of data revealed that the indicators on which the library had been underperforming for the quantity and availability of computer equipment, furniture and collection service in respect of information needs, the quantity and update. Also showed poor performance critical item on the area for individual study. It is concluded that the quality of the library is related to the quality of training of students, investigated by ENADE.

The aim of this study is to present the subject “organizational performance mensuration” through strategic management of indicators as instruments to control management information. It has as a purpose to develop and to apply performance mensuration taxonomy for the library. The research uses the functionalist approach and it is characterized for being descriptive and at the same time of practical aim. The guide basis for such investigation is the Sistema Nacional de Avaliação do Ensino Superior – SINAES, which institutes evaluation in higher education public institutions and the ISO standard 11620/2004 which spread knowledge on how performance measurement can be accomplished in the library. The Investigation was carried out at the Biblioteca de Ciências Humanas of the Universidade Federal do Ceará and aspects concerning the analysis of the product, the delivery systems as well as of the processes were approached. The instrument developed was showed to be efficient and of easy application, whereas the necessary information sources seem to be accessible and available in the routine of the library and resulted in consistent and precious information for managers. As a conclusion we can say that the performance systematic mensuration use is an efficient tool of control and accompaniment of management information, supporting the safe decision taking and the organizational planning, therefore, its dissemination must be encouraged.

The general objective of this study was to conduct an assessment of quality of university libraries and its association with student performance in the National Examination of Student Performance (ENADE). The literature of the area addressed the evolution of approaches to learning assessment, the dimensions of the concept of quality more appropriate to the educational context. Presents the development of evaluation systems already in place in Brazil, contextualizing them always from the relation State-Society-Education. The research is exploratory and used as a technical procedure to collect the data field study ex post facto. The sample was chosen on the basis of grades obtained by the courses in ENADE. Data were collected through questionnaire and analyzed using the software Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), which provided the calculation of measures of location average, median and mode. The association between quality of university library and the concepts of the courses in ENADE occurred mainly with the acquis regarding the fulfillment of information needs and the adequacy of furniture. The evaluation has generated knowledge about the students' satisfaction regarding the various dimensions of university library and this fact is related to the quality of training of students, investigated by ENADE. The research revealed that there are aspects in the infrastructure of the library that compromise performance satisfactory supply of information services to the academic community.

The Globalized society has become centered in the application of information and of knowledge so that the High Education Institutions (IES) are affected by such social changes once they already have information as raw material. The university library has become a strategic equipment for the implantation of new sorts of management in the IES. In such context, we aim, with this research, to develop the management strategic method, adapted for university libraries, particularly in the Health and Science Library of the Federal University of Ceará-UFC, proposed by Kaplan and Norton (1997): the Balanced Scorecard – BSC. The methodology used for the elaboration of the method proposed the accomplishment of 9 (nine) stages: define the selected organizational unity; establish or define the organization vision and mission; proceed to the swot analysis; determine global strategies; define perspectives; select strategic objectives; define indicators and goals for each objective; suggest strategic actions and working out of the strategic map. The implantation process was described through the analysis of the four perspectives: social responsibility perspective, of the clients, of the internal processes and of learning and growing. The evaluation of results was positive concerning strengthening to subsidies to improve the strategic management of the UFC- Health and Sciences Library and to serve as a parameter for other High Education Institutions (IES) university libraries. Thus, it was concluded that the method used presented effective results for the library analyzed while it is used as inspiration for deepening the strategies determined as essential for the institution consolidation and growing. It also encourages the continuous search for learning and excellence for the social accomplishment of the university library mission.

This research deals with the mechanisms of update of basic bibliographies in specific way of the update them basic bibliographies them courses of graduation of the area of the health taken care of by the Biblioteca de Ciências da Saúde da Universidade Federal do Ceará. It is objective generality of the research to understand the politics of update of the quantity of the Biblioteca de Ciências da Saúde da Universidade (BCS) of the Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) and more specifically to consider one politics of cooperation between on library and professors to the courses taken care of for it the courses of Medicine, Odontology, Nursing and Pharmacy. It was broken of the estimated one that it is not having update of basic bibliographies of the courses of graduation leaving of suggestions of the professors you discipline of them on to the courses and yes of preexisting lists, therefore outdated proceeding from the coordinations of the courses. How much to the objectives and the used technique it was opted to the case study. The sample of 264 pupils was selected statistical amongst the population of 2237 pupils registered the first semester of the year of 2009 in the courses of Medicine, Odontology, Nursing and Pharmacy, distributed proportionally enters the four courses taken care of for the BCS. Amongst the joined results we have that if it makes necessary the participation accomplishes of the library in the process of update of basic bibliographies of the graduation courses.

The changes that if gestam in the society contemporary affect all the scopes of the life human being and societária, amongst them the interior of the organizations. With effect, if they find the libraries university, surrounding where already certain concerns with the changes of position on the part of the professionals are observed and, in special, of whom they loan its force of work to serve a community of users well. They are considered then, this research that it makes possible to answer to the following problems: which is the perception that the managers of libraries of the UFC have on its paper as occupying of this position? How the using customers/of the libraries of the UFC understand the role assumed for the managers of these organizations? The general objective of this research was to identify and to analyze the perception that the managers of the university libraries of the UFC possess on the paper that they play in this function making a parallel with the perception of the referring users to its performance. Bibliography is about a research, documentary, of field and exploratória.de quantitative nature, using as boarding procedure the funcionalista method and the study of multicase. The collection of data was made by means of questionnaires with scale of opinion based on the measure of Likert. It was diagnosised that the managers had demonstrated to have conscience of the paper who exert in these units, search innovations of the technologies as strategies to improve the attendance to the necessities of the users and for the continuous improvement of the management. Referring to the informacionais abilities, them they are essential so that the managers can play its functions better and offer services of information with quality. With regard to the parallel the perception of the users enters and of the managers on its performance, it had discrepancy in the cotejamento of the answers. The users had designated that little perceives the role played for the managers in its functions. Already the managers very perceive well its performance in the position, with exception of the negotiation capacity.

CASTELAR,I.; RAMOS, Suzana C.S.; OLIVEIRA, José C.S.de; CÂMARA, Cláudio A.G.da; CARVALHO, A.F.F.U.; LIMA FILHO, José V. Antibacterial and cytotoxic properties of some plant crude extracts used in Northeastern folk medicine. Revista brasileira de farmacognosia, v.19, n.2A, p.376-381, abr./jun.2009

There is a great amount of asymmetry in the distribution of deforestation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon, particularly in the states of Mato Grosso, Pará and Rondônia, what it would be, in principle, associate with certain common characteristics of their productive activities such as cattle, timber cutting and, more recently, the expansion in the production of grains. However, it can be inquired if municipalities with similar economic characteristics can be grouped as clubs with respect to deforestation.The goal of this article was to test the club convergence hypothesis of deforested areas in the cities of the Legal Amazon in the period of 2000 to 2004. In order to reach the objectives considered, a threshold model based in Hansen (2000) was used. The empirical results corroborate the hypothesis, with respect to formation of four clubs of convergence.

Themain objective of this paper was to peruse the role of socio-economic characteristics on the chance of success in an aptitude test for admission to a public bank in the Northeast of Brazil. Using a logit model, and a sample of 232,308 candidates, the main results of the model point that family income, type of education, age and residential location of the candidate are the key factors influencing success in the test. The results,therefore, reiterate a vicious circle of income concentration which can be extremely harmful to a poor region as the Northeast of Brazil.

O problema do desequilíbrio regional brasileiro normalmente tem sido tratado na literatura nacional a partir de investigações que utilizam a renda e/ou PIB per capita como variáveis de análise. Para sociedades com baixos níveis de desigualdade, esse procedimento é uma boa representação do bem-estar social. Entretanto, para economias com elevados níveis de pobreza e desigualdade, a utilização da renda ou PIB pode não ser apropriada. Nesse sentido, esse artigo discute se a aproximação da renda per capita existente entre o Nordeste e o Sudeste brasileiro também vem ocorrendo em termos de bem-estar social. Para esse objetivo, duas medidas de bem-estar social são utilizadas: Sen (1977) e Kakwani e Son (2008). Os resultados apontam que, assim como ocorre com a renda per capita, também está havendo aproximação de bemestar considerando a medida de Sen. Entretanto, quando se leva em conta o movimento da renda dos mais pobres, presente no segundo índice, constata-se um afastamento entre as duas regiões. As análises são feitas para o período de 1995 a 2007. Por fim, identificou-se que foram os ganhos de produtividade dos trabalhadores pertencentes a famílias pobres no Sudeste os principais responsáveis por esse distanciamento. or GDP cannot be appropriate. Accordingly, this article discusses if the approximation of per capita income between the Northeast and Southeast Brazil has also occurred in terms of social welfare. To this, two measures of social welfare are used: Sen (1977) and Kakwani e Son (2008). The results suggest as occurs with per capita income, there has also been assimilation of welfare, considering Sen’s proposal. However, when it is considered the movement of the poorest income, present in the second index, there is a distance between the two regions. The analyses are made for the period 1995 to 2007. Finally, it was identified that the productivity gains of workers belonging to poor families in the Southeast were the main responsible for this gap.

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The main studies about convergence in Brazil have concentrated in the β-convergence analysis. The present article reexamines this issue using a methodology developed by Quah (1997) to analyze the evolution over time of the conditioned distribution of income among Brazilian states and municipalities between 1970 and 2000. Three kinds of estimation are done: a) kernel smoothed densities methods; b) estimation of stochastic kernels to analyze the movements of the economies over the income space with the aim to identify convergence clubs in specific space intervals; c)estimation of stochastic kernels conditional on geographic localization, education, openness to international trade and income inequality, with the objective to identify possible explanations to the observed pattern of convergence. The use of the methodologies above allowed us to identify a tendency of club formation in Brazil, as already identified by Mossi et all (2003) and Andrade et all (2004). Variables concerning geographical localization and level of education appeared as the main conditioner for this process.

Our objective is to study, in a labor market characterized by search frictions, the effect of technological progress on the average quality of job matches. For that, we use an extension of Mortensen and Pissarides (1998) and obtain as results that the effects of technological progress on the labor market depend upon the initial conditions of the economy. If the economy is totally characterized by the presence of low-quality job matches, an increase in technological progress is accompanied by an increase in the quality of jobs. In turn, if the economy is totally characterized by the presence of high-quality job matches, an increase in the technological progress rate implies the reverse effect. Finally,if the economy is totally characterized by the presence of very highquality jobs, an increase in the technological progress rate implies an increase in the average quality of the job matches.

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