Part 1 Macroeconomic analysis: analysis of Brazil's macroeconomic trends, Manuel A.R. Da Fonseca; analysis of Brazilian inflation, Manual A.R. Da Fonseca; trade liberalization and location - geographical shifts in the Brazilian economic structure, Eduardo A. Haddad and Carlos R. Azzoni. Part 2 Regional economic analysis: income distribution in Brazil and the regional and sectoral contrasts, Rodolfo Hoffmann; recent trends in regional competitiveness and industrial concentration, Carlos R. Azzoni; regional competition and complementarity reflected in relative regional dynamics and growth of GSP - a comparative analysis of the northeast of Brazil and the midwest states of the US, Andre Magalhaes, Michael Sonis and Geoffrey J.D. Hewings; interregional and intersectoral relations in the Brazilian economy, 1985 and 1995 compared - an input-output analysis, Francisco C. Crocomo, Antonio Carlos Moretto et al; an econometric model for Sao Paulo State, Carlos R. Azzoni and Decio K. Kadota. Part 3 Infrastructure issues: technical efficiency and returns to scale in local public spending in presence of heterogeneous data - the Brazilian case, Maria da Conceicao Sampaio de Sousa and Francisco S. Ramos; accounting for education, experience and health as investments in human capital, Ana Lucia Kassouf; the current Brazilian transportation structure, Paulo T.V. Resende. Part 4 Agriculture and trade: structural adjustment of the Brazilian agriculture in the 1980s and 1990s, Joaquim Bento de Souza Ferreira Filho; the Brazilian trade balance for basic and processed agricultural products from 1961 to 1995, Clovis Oliveira de Almeida and Carlos Jose Caetano Bacha; the world meat market and the Brazilian economy - an econometric input-output analysis, Flavia Maria de Mello Bliska and Joaquim J.M. Guilhoto; the insertion of the Brazilian economy in Mercosur - an approach by value added, Marco Antonio Montoya.
