This work aims to verify how the Public-private Partnership contracts can be used as a tool for the policy makers to provide infrastructure in health services, specially seeking to fight the coronavirus pandemic, like the construction of hospitals and health centers, plus research and development of vaccines and medicine. An analysis of PPP cases already currently working in Brazil was conducted, based on the empiric literature. The PPPs arise as a feasible alternative of investments in this sector, particularly in a fragile moment of public accounts, in addition to the need of healthcare improvements throughout the country. Besides being more efficient, this kind of contract also attenuate the pressure on the public accounts since it is financed by private investments.

This study investigates the effects of software piracy on economic growth around the world for the years 2000 to 2014, using panel data structure with fixed effects to capture this relationship, plus year dummies. Our findings suggest, in general, that software piracy has a negative impact on growth and that this relationship seems to be non-linear.

Este é um artigo de acesso aberto, licenciado por Creative Commons Atribuição 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0), sendo permitida reprodução, adaptação e distribuição desde que o autor e a fonte originais sejam creditados. Determinantes das Parcerias Público-Privadas na AméricaLatina e no Caribe Palavras-chave:Parcerias Público-Privadas, Infraestrutura, Contas governamentais.Abstract. Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) are a new form of contractual model that allows public sector use the private sector as a partner to provide infrastructure services. Based on Hammami et al. (2006), Sharma (2012 and Fernandez et al. (2015) this work aimed to investigate the possible determinants of PPPs for Latin American and Caribbean countries. In addition, were done the specific analysis for sale and Greenfield contracts and the number of projects of this contractual arrangement. To achieve this purpose, it evaluated a panel of data from this group of nations covering the period from 2004 to 2014. The econometric analyses consist in using panel data estimators. In addition, to overcome problems related on counting data and to verify the robustness, it used the regression techniques with the Negative Binomial, Poisson and Poisson Inflated Zeros. The main results reinforce that government budget constraints, the legal system and the business environment are preponderant channels for investment in PPPs.

Este é um artigo de acesso aberto, licenciado por Creative Commons Atribuição 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0), sendo permitida reprodução, adaptação e distribuição desde que o autor e a fonte originais sejam creditados. Determinantes das Parcerias Público-Privadas na AméricaLatina e no Caribe Palavras-chave:Parcerias Público-Privadas, Infraestrutura, Contas governamentais.Abstract. Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) are a new form of contractual model that allows public sector use the private sector as a partner to provide infrastructure services. Based on Hammami et al. (2006), Sharma (2012 and Fernandez et al. (2015) this work aimed to investigate the possible determinants of PPPs for Latin American and Caribbean countries. In addition, were done the specific analysis for sale and Greenfield contracts and the number of projects of this contractual arrangement. To achieve this purpose, it evaluated a panel of data from this group of nations covering the period from 2004 to 2014. The econometric analyses consist in using panel data estimators. In addition, to overcome problems related on counting data and to verify the robustness, it used the regression techniques with the Negative Binomial, Poisson and Poisson Inflated Zeros. The main results reinforce that government budget constraints, the legal system and the business environment are preponderant channels for investment in PPPs.