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Раздел "Международное право" - рубрика "Международное частное право" ; Статья посвящена рассмотрению вопроса о том, какие обстоятельства определяют международный характер договора факторинга. На основании изучения белорусского законодательства, международных правовых актов, трудов отечественных и зарубежных ученых автор приходит к следующим выводам. В мировой практике не сложился единый подход к определению того, какие критерии наделяют договор факторинга международным характером. Как правило, выделяют исчерпывающий перечень таких критериев (Банковский кодекс Республики Беларусь, Конвенция УНИДРУА о международном факторинге 1988 г., Конвенция Организации Объединенных Наций об уступке дебиторской задолженности в международной торговле 2001 г.). По мнению автора статьи, существующие подходы к определению критериев международного характера договора факторинга нельзя признать оптимальными. Ввиду того, что договор факторинга всегда затрагивает интересы, как минимум, трех субъектов (кредитора, фактора и должника), которые могут иметь различную национальную принадлежность, а также принимая во внимание вариативность международных хозяйственных отношений и их постоянную эволюцию, при выделении критериев, определяющих международных характер гражданско-правового договора, в том числе и договора факторинга, нельзя сводить их к конкретно заданному исчерпывающему перечню. В этой связи автор признает целесообразность подхода, закрепленного в Межамериканской конвенции о праве, применимом к международным контрактам (1994 г.), где под международным контрактом контракт, стороны которого имеют обычное место жительства или коммерческие предприятия в различных договаривающихся государствах, или контракт, имеющий объективную связь более чем с одним договаривающимся государством. По мнению автора статьи, этот подход вполне соответствует отечественной доктрине о предмете международного частного права. В заключение сделана попытка сформулировать собственное определение договора международного факторинга, которое, по мнению автора, охватывает все возможные случаи проявления международного характера рассматриваемого договора. = The article deals with the issue of the circumstances which determine the international nature of a treaty on factoring. After the study of Belarusian legislation, international legal instruments and the research of national and foreign academics the author came to the conclusions that follow below. No single approach has emerged in the practice across the world as to the criteria which provide a treaty with international character. As a rule, comprehensive lists of these factors are compliled, such as the Banking Code of the Republic of Belarus, the 1988 UNIDROIT Convention on International Factoring, the UN Convention on the Assignment of Receivables in International Trade. According to the author the existing approaches to determining the criteria of the international nature of a treaty on factoring can hardly be considered efficient. In view of the fact that a treaty on factoring always involves the interests of at least three subjects (the creditor, the factor and the debtor) who can have different national allegiance and also considering the variability of the international economic relations and their constant evolution it is not advised to limit the criteria which define the international character of a civil law treaty including treaties on factoring to some specific comprehensive list. In this respect the author recognizes the expediency of the approach fixed in the 1994 Inter-American Convention on the Law Applicable to the International Contracts (1994) where an international contract is regarded to be a contract the parties of which have permanent residence or commercial enterprises in different states which agree on the contract, or a contract which is objectively connected with more than one state-parties to the agreement. In the author's opinion, this approach corresponds to the national doctrine on the subject of international private law. In conclusion the author makes an attempt to formulate her own definition of a treaty on international factoring which covers all possible cases of manifestation of the international nature in question.

Раздел "Международное право" - рубрика "Международное гуманитарное право" ; В статье рассматриваются юридические проблемы, связанные с перемещением в конце Второй мировой войны культурных ценностей из Германии в бывший СССР. Автор анализирует новую форму международно-правовой ответственности — компенсаторную реституцию, содержащуюся в Федеральном законе Российской Федерации «О культурных ценностях, перемещенных в Союз ССР в результате Второй мировой войны и находящихся на территории Российской Федерации», принятом 15 апреля 1998 г. На основе анализа международных актов, устанавливающих международно-правовую ответственность государств, автор делает вывод о неправомерности установления национальным государственным актом новой формы международно-правовой ответственности — компенсаторной реституции, как это сделал российский законодатель в Федеральном законе 1998 г. Общий вывод: перемещенные культурные ценности, по поводу которых ведется спор между Германией и Россией, должны быть возвращены в международный культурный оборот. = The article considers the juridical problems, connected with the transference of the cultural valuables from Germany to the former USSR at the end of the Second World War. The author analyses a new form of the international-legal responsibility — «compensatory restitution», which is contained in the Federal law of the Russian Federation, adopted on April 15, 1998: «On the cultural valuables, which were transferred to the USSR as a result of the Second World War, and which currently are on the territory of the Russian Federation». On the basis of the analysis of the international acts establishing the international legal responsibility of the states, the author comes to the conclusion about the unlawfulness of the establishment by a national state act of a new form of the international legal responsibility «compensatory restitution», as it was done by the Russian legislator in the Federal law of the Russian Federation from 1998. The general conclusion is: the transferred cultural valuables which are the subject of Germany and Russia legal dispute should be returned and put into international cultural circulation.

Раздел "Международное право" - рубрика "Международное частное право" ; В статье раскрываются понятия «электронная торговля» и «электронные средства связи» с использованием законодательства Республики Беларусь и актов международного права. При осуществлении электронной торговли электронная сделка может заключаться путем оформления электронных документов или путем обмена ими. Электронный документ подписывается с использованием средств электронной подписи или иных ее аналогов. Для передачи и обработки данных по каналам электронной связи используется программно-техническое оборудование. В том случае, если одной из сторон внешнеэкономической сделки, заключаемой в сети Интернет, является резидент Республики Беларусь, такая сделка может быть заключена только в письменной форме. Заключение договора посредством электронной связи приравнивается к письменной форме сделки. В том случае, если по законодательству сторон договора разрешена устная форма договора, при заключении договора с использованием сети Интернет будет иметь место письменная форма сделки, так заключение договора посредством электронной связи приравнивается к такой форме сделки. = In the present article the notions of «e-commerce» and «e-communication facilities» are explained with reference to the legislation of the Republic of Belarus and the acts of international law are used. During e-commerce realization, the e-deal can be concluded via designing an e-document or via an exchange of e-documents. An e-document is signed with the help of an electronic signature or its analogues. For transferring and processing the data by electronic communication channels the program-technical equipment is used. In case one of the parties of an external economic deal, concluded in the Internet, is the resident of the Republic of Belarus, such deal can be concluded only in the written form. Concluding a contract via electronic communication facilities is equated with the written form of a deal. Even in case the legislation of the parties of the contract allows oral forms of contracts, while concluding a contract with the help of the Internet the written form of the deal will take place, as concluding a contract via electronic communication facilities is equated with the written form of a deal.

Раздел "Международные экономические отношения" ; Оценивая международную торговлю, можно определить, что ее рост относительно незначителен и составляет около 1 % от роста ВВП. Однако очевидно ее положительное влияние на экономический рост. Насколько велики эффекты экономического роста? Отечественная и зарубежная литература по международной торговле подчеркивает статистическую, но не экономическую зависимость отношения «международная торговля — экономический рост». Использование инструментов мета-анализа взаимосвязи международной торговли и экономического роста страны позволило преодолеть проблему снижения доверительных статистических интервалов с минимальными размерами выборки. Определено влияние показателей внешнеторгового оборота, обменного курса, уровня неграмотности, индекса уровня среднего образования, индекса развития человеческого потенциала, уровня безработицы, государственных расходов в (% к ВВП), индекса R&D на экономический рост с учетом либерализации торговли. Получен ответ на главный вопрос: является ли свободная торговля гарантией экономического роста. Эмпирически доказано, что новые развивающиеся страны с показателями роста экспорта в 12 % в год или более смогут демонстрировать темпы роста ВВП примерно на 2,5 % в среднем быстрее, чем промышленно-развитые страны. = The estimated welfare gains from international trade are small enough, on the order of one percent of GDP. However, under free trade, their positive impact on economic growth is obvious. But as to the size of these effects, national and foreign literature on international trade has emphasized the statistical significance, not the economic significance, of the international trade-growth relationship. Using the instruments of meta-analysis of the international trade-growth relationship has enabled the authors to overcome the problem of credibility with a minimal sample sizes. The influence of such indicators as foreign trade, the exchange rate, the illiteracy rate, secondary education level, human development index, unemployment, government spending in % of GDP, R&D index on economic growth are defined in relation to trade liberalization. The research has answered the main question, whether free trade guarantees economic growth. It is empirically proven, that the developing countries with the growth rates of exports up to 12 % or more per year will be able to demonstrate an average GDP growth rate of about 2.5 % quicker than the developed industrial countries.

Раздел "Международные экономические отношения" ; В статье рассматривается один из ключевых вопросов внешнеторговой политики Республики Беларусь — вступление во Всемирную торговую организацию (ВТО) и в связи с этим формирование грамотной научно обоснованной экспортоориентированной политики с учетом ее требований и правил. В республике созданы благоприятные условия для развития экспорта, о чем свидетельствуют его стабильно высокие темпы роста. Вместе с тем, большинство используемых для его стимулирования методов в настоящее время подпадает под запрет ВТО, вызывая растущее недовольство и противодействие основных торговых партнеров — членов данной организации и ограничивая возможности его наращивания в средне- и долгосрочной перспективе. Отсутствие мер защиты от большинства недобросовестно стимулируемых отечественных предприятий-экспортеров объясняется их незначительным весом на международных рынках, т. е. отсутствием с их стороны масштабной конкуренции. Соглашение по субсидиям и компенсационным мерам ВТО допускает лишь три вида разрешенных субсидий — в прикладные научные разработки и их внедрение, на выравнивание диспропорций в территориальном развитии и на защиту окружающей среды. Таким образом, имеющаяся система финансового стимулирования экспортоориентированных производств республики нуждается в серьезном пересмотре и переводе на исключительное финансирование новых наукоемких производств, а также на экспортное страхование и финансирование при участии специализированных государственных организаций. Помимо этого, государству следует активнее заниматься информационным обеспечением внешнеэкономической деятельности, а также предоставлением качественных маркетинговых услуг по изучению внешних рынков, помощью в организации выставочно-ярмарочной деятельности за рубежом и налаживанием прямых контактов с правительствами стран — основных торговых партнеров в рамках деятельности комиссий по торгово-экономическому сотрудничеству. = The article reviews one of the key issues of Belarusian trade policy — accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and thus forming competent and science-grounded export promotion policy based on its requirements and rules. Favourable conditions for export development in the Republic of Belarus are proven by its stably high growth. At the same time, the majority of measures for its stimulation fall under the prohibition of WTO and cause the growing discontent and counteraction from the main trading partners — WTO member states and thus limit the possibility of export growth in the middle- and long-term. The absence of protection measures in respect to many Belarusian enterprises can be explained by their negligible share in the international markets, i. e. their low competition power. The WTO Agreement on subsidies and countervailing measures allows only three types of subsidies — in research and development, for leveling the disproportions in the development of regions of the country, and for environment protection. That is why the current system of financial support of exporters should be reconsidered from direct financial support to more attention to financing of innovative R&D products and to export guaranteeing and financing through the established specialized state trade finance institutions. Besides, the government should provide more information support and marketing services to exporting enterprises, help them at international exhibitions and trade fairs and also set up new direct contacts with the governments of the major trading partners within the bounds of intergovernmental commissions on trade and economic development.

This article analyses the Brazilian trade policy and the dilemmas involved in the search of a more dynamic insertion in the world's international trade system. In view of the prevailing tendencies in the direction of globalization and regionalism, new rules and disciplines introduced in GATT's Uruguay Round, proposals coming from the United States and from the European Union, respectively, to become a partner in Free Trade Agreements, Brazil is confronted with strategic choices which will determine its long-term development's possibilities. ; This article analyses the Brazilian trade policy and the dilemmas involved in the search of a more dynamic insertion in the world's international trade system. In view of the prevailing tendencies in the direction of globalization and regionalism, new rules and disciplines introduced in GATT's Uruguay Round, proposals coming from the United States and from the European Union, respectively, to become a partner in Free Trade Agreements, Brazil is confronted with strategic choices which will determine its long-term development's possibilities.

This paper deals with the reasons why the United States have been seeking for the strengthening of the intellectual property rights (IPRs) at recent bilateral and multilateral negotiations, specially during the GATT's Uruguay Round. The hypothesis of this paper suggests that the IPRs' strengthening is part of an attempt made by the United States to revert the present process of weakening of their competitive advantages in the International trade. This hypothesis is investigated through three aspects: (a) the relationship between technological paradigms and the appropriability of innovations; (b) the role of transnational corporations; (c) the challenges to the United States' competitive position. ; This paper deals with the reasons why the United States have been seeking for the strengthening of the intellectual property rights (IPRs) at recent bilateral and multilateral negotiations, specially during the GATT's Uruguay Round. The hypothesis of this paper suggests that the IPRs' strengthening is part of an attempt made by the United States to revert the present process of weakening of their competitive advantages in the International trade. This hypothesis is investigated through three aspects: (a) the relationship between technological paradigms and the appropriability of innovations; (b) the role of transnational corporations; (c) the challenges to the United States' competitive position.

The Brazilian Federation features an accentuated degree of decentralization, as much in terms of the political and institutional configuration as at the level of the tax and fiscal indicators. The majority of the analysts and participants in the national debate do not know the evolution and structure of the government accounts, and, even less, the comparisons with international experience. There is much to do in the administrative arena and in the infraconstitutional legislation to organise and further the process of fiscal decentralization, though all this depends on what the central government (in the sense of its political powers), above anything else, assumes a firm desire to decentralize, transfer power to the state and municipal governments. ; The Brazilian Federation features an accentuated degree of decentralization, as much in terms of the political and institutional configuration as at the level of the tax and fiscal indicators. The majority of the analysts and participants in the national debate do not know the evolution and structure of the government accounts, and, even less, the comparisons with international experience. There is much to do in the administrative arena and in the infraconstitutional legislation to organise and further the process of fiscal decentralization, though all this depends on what the central government (in the sense of its political powers), above anything else, assumes a firm desire to decentralize, transfer power to the state and municipal governments.

Apesar da literatura sobre o recente enfraquecimento de funções básicas do Estado Nacional por obra da globalização, o Estado-nação vem demonstrando admirável resiliência, isto é, flexibilidade e capacidade de adaptação às mudanças. Partindo da perspectiva das relações internacionais, o artigo realiza levantamento da geografia política do mundo contemporâneo, indicando as razões que levaram à criação, no século XX, de nada menos de 150, do total de cerca de duzentos Estados existentes. Analisa o caráter ambivalente dos fatores de mudança, nem sempre no sentido do enfraquecimento do Estado, e se detém no caso da União Européia, única exceção de êxito na construção, ainda incompleta, de configuração pós-nacional. ; Notwithstanding recent studies about the alleged weakening of some basic functions of nation-states on account of globalization, national states have been showing remarkable resiliency, that is, flexibility and adaptability to change. Starting from the perspective of international relations, the article undertakes a review of contemporary world's political geography, pointing out some of the reasons that explain the creation, during the XXth century, of 150 out of a total number of 200 existing national states. It analyses the ambivalent nature of some of the forces for change, not always towards national state weakening, and devotes special attention to the European Union, the only example of a still unfinished construction of a post-national configuration.

Раздел "Международные отношения" ; В статье рассматривается эволюция концептуальных основ внешней политики Дании в свете геополитических изменений, связанных с распадом биполярной системы международных отношений. Автор предпринимает попытку комплексного анализа исторических и теоретических предпосылок для формирования нового подхода во внешней политике Дании. Отличительной чертой нового курса в датской внешней политике явилось выделение фундаментальных ценностей в качестве одного из средств реализации внешней политики. Согласно последней концепции внешней политики Дании, принятой в 2003 г., разрешение международных конфликтов перестало ограничиваться компетенцией ООН и ОБСЕ. Главным результатом этой политики стало участие Дании в военных операциях, проводимых под эгидой США в Афганистане и Ираке. Идеологическим оформлением нового курса стало отстаивание либерально-демократических ценностей в эпоху «столкновения цивилизаций» и появление реальных и мнимых угроз безопасности в лице исламского терроризма. Ярким примером данной концептуализации новых угроз явилась публикация в газете «Юлландс-постен» карикатур на пророка Мухаммеда, обернувшаяся наихудшим внешнеполитическим кризисом в Дании со времен Второй мировой войны. В этой связи ценностный подход не оправдал себя в качестве средства реализации внешней политики, поскольку Дания оказалась не готова к предотвращению кризисов на почве межкультурных различий. Таким образом, актуальной задачей внешней политики Дании на современном этапе представляется выработка более сбалансированного подхода к пониманию угроз международной безопасности и способов их преодоления. = The article investigates the evolution of the Danish foreign policy in the context of the new geopolitical reality after the breakdown of the bipolar system of international relations. The author attemps to make use of a complex analysis of historical and theoretical prerequisites for new approaches in Danish foreign policy. The new conceptual approach has been distinguished by emphasizing specific fundamental values as means of realization of foreign policy. According to the latest concept of the Danish foreign policy, adopted in 2003, international conflict management ceased to be the sole responsibility of the UN and OSCE. This resulted in Danish participation in the military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq under the auspicies of the US. The ideological framework of the new concept has been found in staunch adherence to promoting the liberal democratic values in the era of «the clash of civilizations» and emergence of real as well as imaginary challenges to security stemming from Muslim terrorism. Such conceptualization of new challenges has been vividly exemplified by the publication of Mohammed drawings in the Danish newspaper «Jyllands-Posten», leading to the deepest foreign policy crisis Denmark has ever seen since the end of World War II. The values approach to foreign policy has failed to prove efficient in this context, as Denmark appeared to be insufficiently prepared for facing crises based on intercultural differences. Thus, one of the main challenges of the present Danish foreign policy is considered to be working out a more balanced approach to understanding international security threats and means of dealing with them.

Раздел "Международное право" - рубрика "Права человека" ; Статья посвящена рассмотрению белорусского и европейского законодательства, международных договоров в сфере регламентации начала правовой охраны человеческой жизни с учетом произошедших в последнее время изменений законодательства рассматриваемых государств. В статье представлен краткий обзор теоретических обоснований возможных этапов возникновения права на жизнь, характеристика нормативного закрепления этого права в международном праве, законодательстве Республики Беларусь и некоторых европейских государств; проведен анализ практики европейских государств в указанной сфере и национального законодательства Республики Беларусь; выработаны некоторые рекомендации в целях совершенствования правовой основы реализации права на жизнь в нашей республике. В процессе работы по выявлению и обобщению литературного и нормативного материала внимание было сосредоточено на изучении не только правовых источников, но и вспомогательных средств, используемых при их толковании, — решений и консультативных заключений специализированных международных судов, в первую очередь, Европейского суда по правам человека. Некоторые из рассмотренных в статье вопросов освещаются впервые. = The present article is devoted to the analysis of the Belarusian as well as European law in the sphere of international treaty regulation of the right to life. The article takes into account the recent legal developments in the said sphere. The article comprises a brief overview of a right to life, its legal regulation in international law, Belarusian law and the law of certain EU states. The present study also analyses the implementation of the legal norms on the right to life by the EU states and Belarus and proposes certain recommendations to enhance the legal regulation of the right to life in Belarus. The present work is based not only on normative and doctrinal sources but also on a vast amount of judicial practice — judgments and advisory opinions of regional judicial bodies, inter alia, of the European Court of Human Rights. Some of the issues raised in the article are not covered in doctrine and are introduced here for the first time by the author.

In this text, Jacques Fontanel demonstrates that, only recently, contemporary economists have been concerned with defense economy, as, frequently, peace, in their studies, was considered as something given. The author reviews the five major currents of thought that analyse the economical nature of defense effort, showing what it has been representing along periods of time, for the liberals, Marxists, Keynesian authors, for the Mercantilist School and for the adepts of econometric studies. Following, emphasizes the economy of disarmament, approaching questions such as: the military costs are, actually, external variables? Ali disarmament is necessarily equivalent to a cut in military costs? There exist, in fact, the so called "peace dividends"? Is there possibility of conversion of the military industry? After, the author analyses the fundamental principles of disarmament and the actual International context which lead interrogations from the economists about the substitution of the military war by the economical war. Concluding, J. Fontanel states that the economical factors became permanent armament, where the economy is transformed in an instrument of power used in the conflict of States, as the food weapon. The author, finally, exhorts the influent segments of society to a general concern in favor of peace. ; In this text, Jacques Fontanel demonstrates that, only recently, contemporary economists have been concerned with defense economy, as, frequently, peace, in their studies, was considered as something given. The author reviews the five major currents of thought that analyse the economical nature of defense effort, showing what it has been representing along periods of time, for the liberals, Marxists, Keynesian authors, for the Mercantilist School and for the adepts of econometric studies. Following, emphasizes the economy of disarmament, approaching questions such as: the military costs are, actually, external variables? Ali disarmament is necessarily equivalent to a cut in military costs? There exist, in fact, the so called "peace dividends"? Is there possibility of conversion of the military industry? After, the author analyses the fundamental principles of disarmament and the actual International context which lead interrogations from the economists about the substitution of the military war by the economical war. Concluding, J. Fontanel states that the economical factors became permanent armament, where the economy is transformed in an instrument of power used in the conflict of States, as the food weapon. The author, finally, exhorts the influent segments of society to a general concern in favor of peace.

The process of economic integration between Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay — and so far with Chile and Bolívia —, the MERCOSUR, Is viewed as part of a movement that is changing the relation of economy and space. In this sense, first of all, some theoretical questions about economic development and the territory are pointed out, describing this relationship at the level of accumulation and regulation and picturing the fordist mode of development and its Latin-American contemporary, the national development—commonly identified with import substitution. Secondly, a historical overview of Latin America's South Cone development at the fordist age tries to characterize the regimes of accumulation and modes of regulation prevailing in a national base at each country. Thirdly, the post-fordist era is considered with the changes in the international regime, the accumulation process and the regulation structures and their effects on the economic integration. At least, the hypothesis of the emerging continental block, the MERCOSUR, be a new milestone in economic development for the region is dealt with as a possible new kind of spatiality for capital accumulation. ; The process of economic integration between Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay — and so far with Chile and Bolívia —, the MERCOSUR, Is viewed as part of a movement that is changing the relation of economy and space. In this sense, first of all, some theoretical questions about economic development and the territory are pointed out, describing this relationship at the level of accumulation and regulation and picturing the fordist mode of development and its Latin-American contemporary, the national development—commonly identified with import substitution. Secondly, a historical overview of Latin America's South Cone development at the fordist age tries to characterize the regimes of accumulation and modes of regulation prevailing in a national base at each country. Thirdly, the post-fordist era is considered with the changes in the international regime, the accumulation process and the regulation structures and their effects on the economic integration. At least, the hypothesis of the emerging continental block, the MERCOSUR, be a new milestone in economic development for the region is dealt with as a possible new kind of spatiality for capital accumulation.

O artigo enfoca, pela óptica do direito econômico, as influências das políticas econômicas privadas (basicamente do capital transnacional) e dos entes internacionais sobre as políticas econômicas públicas, especialmente as realizadas pelos Estados em desenvolvimento. Enfatiza a mutação do neoliberalismo de regulamentação para o de regulação como exigência dos poderes econômicos privados, identificando entre os seus resultados o enfraquecimento do Estado e a descrença na democracia. E, ainda, defende a existência de espaços para a execução de ações econômicas endógenas por parte dos Estados Nacionais, a fim de viabilizar a eficácia de suas Constituições econômicas e suprir as carências de seus povos. ; This paper deal with, by Economical Law view, the effects of private economic policy, essentially of foreign capital, and the international organizations above the public economic policy, mainly that politics performed by the development nations. Lay emphasis on the mutation of the regulatory New Liberalism to the regulation as demand of private economic powers, recongnized enter their results: The decline of the State and the unbelief of democracy. Defends existence of spaces for the execution of endogenous economic actions by part of National States, for the purpose of execute effectiveness of their economical constitution and supply the shortage of their people.

O artigo teve por objetivo caracterizar o jogo patológico, apresentando as principais conseqüências desse transtorno. Foi realizado levantamento bibliográfico sobre o tema, na literatura nacional e internacional. Foram selecionadas as publicações cujos principais achados enfatizavam prevalência, custos sociais e econômicos associados, legalização de jogos de azar e conseqüente impacto na saúde pública. Alto índice de suicídio, comorbidade com outros transtornos psiquiátricos, problemas familiares e no trabalho, e prática de atos ilícitos foram conseqüências relatadas. A prevalência desse transtorno é maior em países que legalizaram jogos de azar e no Brasil, há evidências do crescimento do número de jogadores patológicos. O desenvolvimento de pesquisas nacionais é imprescindível para a definição de políticas públicas adequadas à realidade brasileira. ; The article aimed to characterize pathological gambling, showing the main consequences of this disorder. Bibliographic survey on this theme was conducted, covering both national and international literature. Publications whose main findings emphasized related prevalence, social and economic costs, gambling legalization and resulting impact on public health, were selected. High suicide rate, comorbidity with other psychiatric disorders, family and work problems, and illicit behavior were consequences reported. The prevalence of this disorder is higher in countries that have legalized gambling and in Brazil there is evidence of growth in the number of pathological gamblers. The development of national research is fundamental to define public policies that are adequate for the Brazilian context.