Resumo: O presente artigo visa avaliar os impactos da implantação do terminal intermodal da Ferronorte que liga Santa Fé do Sul, em São Paulo, a Rondonópolis, no sudeste de Mato Grosso. O terminal poderá se tornar a principal via de escoamento da produção de grãos do Estado ao porto de Santos/SP, com funcionamento iniciado em setembro de 2013. No artigo, descreve-se o processo operacional do terminal, incluindo armazenagem, pesagem, tombamento, classificação, recepção e estacionamento de caminhões, carregamento e expedição, entre outros. Em seguida, efetua-se a avaliação do cenário econômico de Rondonópolis e da evolução da produção agrícola de Mato Grosso. Após faz-se a avaliação econômica do empreendimento focando os efeitos para a geração do produto adicionado fiscal ao município de Rondonópolis. Desenvolve-se a análise a partir de um cenário de tendência central em que 60% da produção exportada com destino a Santos seriam escoados via ferrovia. A variável que distingue os dois cenários é a previsão quanto à capacidade de tráfego de caminhões ao longo do trecho da BR-163 entre a área urbana de Rondonópolis e o sítio do terminal. Palavras-chave: terminal intermodal, logística, agronegócio, desenvolvimento regional Abstract: The paper aims to assess the consequences of the Ferronorte intermodal terminal that links Santa Fé do Sul in São Paulo to Rondononópolis in the Southeast of Mato Grosso. The terminal is to become the main route to deliver grains to the port of Santos/SP, and it is due to be operational in September 2013. The paper describes the terminal's operational flow of production: warehousing, truck unloading, classification, reception, truck parking, and train loadings. The assessment of the economic situation of the Rondonopolis region is performed as well together with the analysis of the performance of the agriculture production in Mato Grosso. Next an economic feasibility study of the project is developed in regard to the effects the terminal to the fiscal value added generated to the city of Rondonopolis. That study is based on an outlook in which 60% of the production is delivered from it. The variable that distinguishes both projections is the foreseeable traffic flow capacity of the BR 163 highway along the urban area of Rondonopolis to the intermodal terminal.

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The effect of inspections of the work for the reduction of child labor in Brazil Child labor has been decreasing since the mid-1990s. It was also during this period that the labor inspection in Brazil started to give greater importance to combat child labor. Thus, this research aimed to analyze the effect of labor inspection in the reduction of child labor in 2000 and 2010. Initially, the idea was to use the number of inspected companies in the municipality as a measure of the implementation of inspection in the municipality. However, this variable may be endogenous since the inspections of the work don't rely only on planned fiscal actions, but also on complaints of violations of the laws. To solve this problem it was considered that the implementation of labor inspection depends on the availability of labor inspectors and the distance that they have to travel to get to the place where the inspection will be performed. The labor inspectors are distributed by state, and they work in the Regional Superintendent of Labor (RSL), or in the Regional Management of Labour (RML). According to this information, two instrumental variables were created. The first was the distance between each municipality and the nearest RSL or RML. The second was the number of labor inspectors in the state. We used the method of Two-Stage Least Squares. The analyses were performed by age groups. The results for the year 2000 show that an increase of 1% in the inspection reduced the proportion of children and adolescents working in all analyzed groups. The reduction was of 0.22% for the aged group of 10 to 17 years, 0.45% for the aged group of 10 to 14 years, 0.19% for those aged 15 and approximately 0.09% for the aged group of 16 to 17 years. In absolute terms, these values represent approximately 8,658 children and adolescents for the aged group of 10 to 17 years, 5,140 children and adolescents for the aged group of 10 to 14 years, 1,233 adolescents aged 15 years and 1,929 adolescents for the aged group of 16 to 17 years. The results were statistically significant at 1% and at 10%. For the year 2010, results also showed that the increase of 1% in the labor inspection reduced the proportion of children and adolescents working in all analyzed groups. The reduction was of 0.26% for the aged group of 10 to 17 years, 0.66% for the aged group of 10 to 13 years, 0.41% for the aged group of 14 to 15 years and 0.08% for the aged group of 16 to 17 years. All these results were statistically significant at 1%, except for the last aged group. In absolute terms, these values represent approximately 8,856 children and adolescents for the aged group of 10 to 17 years, 4,689 children and adolescents for the aged group of 10 to 13 years and 3,642 adolescents for the aged group of 14 to 15 years. These results show the importance of labor inspection to decrease or eliminate child labor, mainly its worst forms.

In this work we evaluate the effect of preschool on future academic performance of individuals. Using data from PNAD and SAEB aggregated for successive educational generations, relate the proportion of individuals of a certain generation who attended preschool and school performance future. The indicators of educational performance used were: the probability of an individual from one generation to complete the eight grades of elementary school, with a maximum of two years of delay; to finish high school, with a maximum of two years of delay; enter higher education, with within two years of delay, and the score in Portuguese Language and Mathematics obtained when we use the data from SAEB between 1995 and 2005 for students in 4th grade. Regarding the variable 'start their studies in preschool ,' I can not find any effect on performance indicator estimates. However, we found that start with the studies already in first grade increases by 14.5 percentage points the probability of individuals completing high school. With regard to proficiency in Portuguese Language and Mathematics found a positive effect for the 3rd quartile of the distribution of students' grades. Thus, the results show that the important thing is to get the earlier studies no matter whether in preschool or first grade.

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