A teoria do regime de acumulação financeirizado: conteúdo, alcance e interrogações
This paper provides a synthesis of the approaches to the financialized accumulation regime, showing both the problems and the potentialities of the theories that deal with it. It tries to describe the main systemic features of the financialized regime, while questioning its virtuous character and even its viability. It concludes that it is possible, if not probable, that the regime will soon face a crisis whose epicenter will be in the United States.
Financeirização e a produção do espaço urbano no Brasil: uma contribuição ao debate
Over the past ten years, the number of mortgage loan originations has grown rapidly in Brazil. At the same time, there is a clear trend toward the issuing of...
Did the metamorphosis from Export Processing Zones to Special Economic Zones improve the efficiency of trade enclaves in India?
In this paper, the efficiency of seven conventional Special Economic Zones in India is analyzed, by adopting a stochastic production frontier technique, for the period between 1986–1987 and 2007–2008.Results indicate that although the efficiency scores of these enclaves have improved over the years, specifically with the introduction of the SEZ policy (2000–2001), it is far below the threshold level as identified in the literature. Besides, one can also observe a discrepancy emerging between better export earning zones and efficient zones. On the determinants side, policy intervention and large geographical area, accompanied by clustering of units, are found to have impacted the efficiency scores of these enclaves positively.