Commodity Outlook 2003: U.S. and World Sugar Markets by Andrew Schmitz

“…Both U.S. and E.U. sugar policies support sugar prices for growers well above world levels. Brazilian sugar producers are supported by their government sugar-ethanol program in which over 50 percent of the sugarcane grown in Brazil is converted into fuel. …”
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Políticas públicas de juventude e meio ambiente: o que a percepção socioambiental dos jovens pode dizer? by Tarcísio Augusto Alves Silva

“…Similarly, the various studies that have been com-missioned mainly by companies and the Third Sector in order to understand the profile of the young Brazilian population have identified an interest of this social group in the environment. …”
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A OIT, o Ministério do Trabalho e Emprego, e o Ministério Público do Trabalho: o “trabalho decente” no Brasil by Márcia Regina Barroso

“…As an important institution in the Brazilian labor scene, the ILO has currently excelled in projects that move around the idea of decent work. …”
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Native Trees for South Florida by A.W. Meerow, T.K. Broschat, H.M. Donselman

“… The use of native plants in Florida horticulture has gained importance due to habitat loss, coastal deterioration, and competition from invasive exotics like Brazilian pepper and punk tree. Several counties have enacted ordinances requiring native plants in new developments, increasing demand for native plant materials. …”
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O passado subtraído da desaparição forçada: Araguaia como palimpsesto by Roberto Vecchi

“…The historical palimpsest to be thought in this perspective is the case of the Guerrilla of Araguaia that was completely erased from the maps of the Brazilian history. The case opens the discussion on the concept of restitution in the contemporary theoretical debate. …”
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Jogos, sociabilidade e conflito no Brasil by Édison Gastaldo, Everardo Rocha, Adriana Braga

“…In this paper, starting from two ethnographic experiences, we wish to explore the symbolic dimension of ordinary participation in games in Brazilian culture.…”
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Native Trees for South Florida by A.W. Meerow, T.K. Broschat, H.M. Donselman

“… The use of native plants in Florida horticulture has gained importance due to habitat loss, coastal deterioration, and competition from invasive exotics like Brazilian pepper and punk tree. Several counties have enacted ordinances requiring native plants in new developments, increasing demand for native plant materials. …”
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A decepção de Tinker Bell e a luta das classificações: o artesanato, o Governo Federal e o Sebrae by Maria Salete de Souza Nery

“…Based on the Conceptual Basis of Brazilian Handicraft, a document published by the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade (MDIC), and on the Reference Term of the Sebrae System in Arts and Crafts, both from 2010, we seek to problematize the issue of ratings and the struggles that are at stake in the channeling of values and practices in arts and crafts. …”
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Invisibilidade social a partir do filme “O som ao redor”: uma análise honnethiana das patologias sociais no Brasil by Thiago Aguiar Simim

“…It then analyzes how Honneth draws on works of art to identify social pathologies and subsequently applies this method of analysis to the Brazilian film “Neighboring sounds”, of director Kleber Mendonça Filho. …”
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De volta aos movimentos sociais? Reflexões a partir da literatura brasileira recente by Marcelo Kunrath Silva

“…In recent years, it is observed in Brazilian social sciences an apparent break with the trend of refl ux in studies of social movements, from an increase in publications geared to the theme. …”
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DIREITOS SEM DINHEIRO: Do Novo Regime Fiscal à COVID-19 by Davi Augusto Santana de Lelis

“…This paper addresses the dispute between the realization of rights and the financialization of the Brazilian State, focusing on the analysis of the economic discourse and legal structure of the New Tax Regime, in force since 2016. …”
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Desenvolvimento e direitos fundamentais no projeto eurocêntrico: o desafio do descentramento cognitivo da colonialidade racializada by Maria Sueli Rodrigues de Sousa

“…This article aims to deal with the theme of development and fundamental rights in the scope of Western constitutional rationality, especially Brazilian one, intending to answer this central question: how can we show the plurality oflives and cultures that the racist Eurocentric project seeks to erase with its developmental monism? …”
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Uma reflexão sobre os agentes históricos na sistematização do estereótipo africano sobre a construção do imaginário do negro no Brasil by Claudia Lima

“…In this context, some special features shown by the Portuguese Catholic culture migrate as a continuum phenomenon which is fostered in the meeting or (re)meeting in Brazilian territory, of the African culture together with the Portuguese catholic religion.…”
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A DEA approach for measuring healthcare efficiency in medical, clinical and obstetric specialties by Fabrício da Silva Santos, Susane de Farias Gomes

“… Alagoas occupies the worst public health positions in Brazil, and first in the indicators of infant mortality, presenting an extremely high mortality rate (48.2 deaths per thousand live births to a Brazilian average of 26.3 deaths per thousand live births). …”
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Editors’ Note by Alberto Raposo, Cleber Corrêa

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Ethnoracial disparities in childhood growth trajectories in Brazil: a longitudinal nationwide study of four million children by Helena Benes Matos da Silva, Rita de Cássia Ribeiro-Silva, Juliana Freitas de Mello e Silva, Irina Chis Ster, Poliana Rebouças, Emanuelle Goes, Maria Yury Ichihara, Andrêa Ferreira, Julia M. Pescarini, Rosemeire Leovigildo Fiaccone, Enny S. Paixão, Maurício L. Barreto

“…Objective We aimed to investigate child growth according to maternal ethnoracial group using a nationwide Brazilian database. Methods A population-based retrospective cohort study employed linked data from the CIDACS Birth Cohort and the Brazilian Food and Nutrition Surveillance System (SISVAN). …”
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Mobilidade ocupacional no Brasil: uma análise das chances de mobilidade e inserção ocupacional segundo a origem, a cor e a situação de migração e não-migração para homens chefes do... by Lygia Gonçalves Costa

“…., 1979), also the same as in the classical mobility study 'The Constant Flux' (Erikson and Goldthorpe, 1993), only adapting the self-employed category to the Brazilian reality. By the lack of recent data we only analyze the last two editions of the "National Sample Survey of Households" (Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios - PNAD/IBGE 1988 and 1996).…”
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Trabalho infantil e cultura camponesa: interpelações às políticas públicas by Thais Barbosa Reis, Maria Dione Carvalho de Moraes

“…The addressing of child labor became a part of the Brazilian state agenda in the 1990s, anchored in the discourse on the human rights of children. …”
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Desigualdade e cidadania: uma leitura a partir dos deficientes visuais do Rio de Janeiro by Natália Pacheco Junior

“…Initially I describe the literal and substantive transformation of the Brazilian laws that refer to blind people to get subsidies to make a critical analysis of their history as citizens in Brazil. …”
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Da literatura para a infância à literatura de fronteira: Agustín Fernández Paz e Lygia Bojunga by Blanca-Ana Roig Rechou

“…The article proposes a comparative analysis, of an overview nature, of children’s and youth works of two very important authors of Galician and Brazilian literature systems - respectively Agustín Fernández Paz and Lygia Bojunga. …”
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