Guia Covid-19

Economy

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An expanding market

In Latin America, remunerated caregiving work accounts for 16% of jobs, with 47 million people working in the area

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COVER

The economics of caregiving

Increase in population life expectancy and new family arrangements produce higher demand for caregivers and complicate government decision-making

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Retrospect

The multifaceted legacy of a structuralist

One hundred years after his birth, concepts formulated by economist Celso Furtado remain influential in multiple fields

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Family farming

A system against hunger

Social technology developed at EMBRAPA and UFU offers new ways for rural and low-income communities to produce their own food

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Development

Multiplying returns

New formula to calculate the effects of investment in innovation

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COVID-19

The impact of the virus on Australian universities

Universities in Australia are to receive extra funding to boost the country's economic recovery after the pandemic

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Data

Electricity production in Brazil has almost doubled since 2001, but remains clean

Electricity production in Brazil has almost doubled since 2001, but remains clean

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Public Policy

Opening faucets

Lack of basic sanitation in Brazil damages public health and the economy

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Data

Business R&D spending falls sharply

Spending on research and development by businesses fell nationwide and in São Paulo compared to 2014

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Obituary

A scholar of economic policies

The career of Carlos Lessa, a professor at UFRJ and former president of BNDES, merged academic discipline with politics

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COVID-19

Risk of increase in child labor

The reduced income and increased economic insecurity caused by the COVID-19 pandemic may lead to a rise in child labor rates in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Calculating in the dark

Creativity helps scientists predict the economic impacts of an unprecedented crisis

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Obituary

A thinker of development

Wilson Cano was one of the founders of the UNICAMP Institute of Economics and a scholar of industrialization in Brazil

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Economics

Tools for an equitable society

Economists study how social investment and progressive taxation combat different types of inequality, and how they can be integrated

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Statistics

Stunted by recession

IBGE’s latest PINTEC survey reveals slowing innovation momentum among Brazilian firms between 2015 and 2017

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Economy

Billion-dollar divorce

The joint venture announced two years ago between Embraer and Boeing has been canceled

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Sociology

Objects of desire

In 2011, a replica of the sapphire and diamond ring Kate Middleton wore on her wedding day became a best seller in low-end high street stores in Brazil’s southeastern city of São Paulo

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Funding

Victories for science in Brazilian Congress

The scientific community earned two victories in Brazilian Congress in March

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Retrospect

An x-ray of Brazilian agriculture

Brazil’s first Census of Agriculture in 1920 marked the country’s early transition from an agricultural to an industrial economy

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Economy

Undeclared foreign funding

The US Department of Education is investigating Harvard and Yale universities for failing to declare funding received from foreign governments

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Data

Engineer salaries for men and women in Brazil1

Average real salary for engineers in Brazil grew between 2006 and 2013 and fell from 2013 to 2018

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Interview

Fernanda De Negri: Leveraging the benefits of technology

IPEA economist talks about her ambitions for a new research center that seeks to understand and debate the social and economic impacts of generating knowledge

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Cover

The rise of agtechs

Agribusiness startups are growing the innovation ecosystem in agriculture

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Agriculture 4.0

Data collected, transmitted, and processed in real time can improve farming productivity and sustainability, but limited connectivity and access to digital technology are barriers still needing to be addressed

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Bioenergy

Tapping more energy from sugarcane

The sugar and ethanol industry is poised to double its production of electricity and biomethane from waste over the coming years

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Funding

In defense of science

Party leaders propose research funding as a means to overcome economic crisis

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Interview

Lauro Barata: The network of natural wealth

A chemist promotes connections in order to turn plant substances into applied products

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Interview

Paulo Moutinho: Standing in the forest

Biology, economics, and biking trips help the ecologist think about sustainable development in the Amazon

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Public policy

Unsustainable energy

In addition to financial expenses, scholars see high social and environmental costs as obstacles to hydroelectric expansion in the Amazon

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Environment

Forestry budgets

Researchers examine why some conservation areas receive more public funding than others

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