Economy

Public R&D funding in São Paulo

Time to face the numbers

Economic crisis and high unemployment rate boost the number of FIES debtors

In practice, the theory is different

New research examines the ideas and policies of Republican Brazil's finance ministers

Marilda Sotomayor: A game thinker

Brazilian mathematician who worked with Nobel Prize-winning economists became a leading specialist in the highly applicable theory of matching markets

Everything as before

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decided not to award this year’s Nobel Prize to the development of mRNA-based vaccines

Bees for hire

Startup rents out bees to improve agricultural productivity

Renato Janine Ribeiro: There is no development without science

The new president of SBPC says Brazil lacks an awareness of the influence of research on economic and social prosperity

R&D intensity in national productive structures

Of the various data used to calculate a country’s GDP, the output of different economical sectors is of particular importance

Drawing wealth from nature

How biodiversity can drive a new cycle of industrial development in Brazil

Innovation enablers

Limited public and private investment in strategic and potentially disruptive technologies threatens competitiveness in Brazilian industry

The high cost of the Brazilian Legislature

The Brazilian Legislature is the most expensive among the 34 countries analyzed

University grants posthumous degree

University grants posthumous degree

Mutually reinforcing

Combined with census data, new technologies are expanding the reach of demographic studies

A country in transformation

Modern census methods can now better capture the reality of Brazilian society

A virtuous cycle

Demographic censuses have offered insight into Brazilian society and fueled research in academia

Deaths exacerbate income losses

Death of 430,000 people from COVID-19 until May could cost the economy R$10.9 billion per month

The American strategy

The United States plans to invest heavily in STI to accelerate its economic recovery and respond to China's threat to its technological leadership

Crafting healthcare policy

Since the 1970s, researchers and other actors have worked to integrate government, science, and the economy in the health-industry complex

An expanding market

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

The economics of caregiving

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

The multifaceted legacy of a structuralist

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

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

Multiplying returns

New formula to calculate the effects of investment in innovation

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

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

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

Opening faucets

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

Business R&D spending falls sharply

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

A scholar of economic policies

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

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

Calculating in the dark

Creativity helps scientists predict the economic impacts of an unprecedented crisis