mensuração da chamada economia informal, denominada por alguns de economia subterrânea, apresenta por definição uma série de dificuldades. Buscamos através da colagem de algumas contribuições prévias a elaboração de arcabouço conceitual que permita fazer a ligação entre diagnósticos empíricos e implicações para políticas públicas. Iniciamos com uma análise conceitual das causas e conseqüências da informalidade que fundamenta o levantamento empírico. Cruzamos através de diferentes bases de dados, uma série de atributos dos indivíduos e dos estabelecimentos.

By virtue of the volume and nature of their attributions, including secondary school as well as problem-areas such as security and traffic, the Brazilian states are the ultimate responsible entities for young people. This study argues in favour of granting greater freedom for the states to define their own public policy parameters to deal with local features and to increase the degree of learning about such actions at the national level.

The increasing availability of social statistics in Latin America opens new possibilities in terms of accountability and incentive mechanisms for policy makers. This paper addresses these issues within the institutional context of Brazilian educational system. We build a theoretical model based on the theory of incentives to analyze the role of incentives at the sub-national level. The first result is to demonstrate that an education target system has the potential to improve the allocation of resources to education through conditional transfers to municipalities and schools.