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Examines the legal status of East Timor, focusing on the relationship between concepts of self determination and sovereignty.

The president of the National Resistance Council of East Timor describes conditions under which the Timorese people at present live, protected by the UN's International Force for East Timor (INTERFET), and their strong desire for a peaceful and prosperous future, as an independent country and part of the international community. Included in a collection of articles under the overall title "As Nações Unidas, a Indonésia e Timor-Leste".

Examines the killings and forced population displacement caused by paramilitary groups as part of an Indonesian government campaign to undermine the transition to independence, UN response, and prospects for independence; East Timor. Summary in English p. 252.

Este artigo está baseado num estudo desenvolvido junto à comunidade de um assentamento rural, sobre as identidades sociais que foram sendo produzidas na vivência dos processos de constituição desse grupo específico. Procuramos tratar aqui o conceito de identidade pautado em Larrosa (1998), através da relação de alteridade cuja constituição do "eu" acontece em relação com o "outro" mediada pelos valores, pela história e pela cultura.

An ambassador of Portugal describes the diplomatic processes through which the desire of the people of East Timor for independence was brought to the attention of the UN General Assembly and Security Council, eventually weakening the determination of Indonesia to remain in control. Included in a collection of articles under the cover title "As Nações Unidas, a Indonésia e Timor-Leste".

This paper analyzes the relative roles of wage policy and economic conditions in wage determination for production workers between 1960 and 1976 in five manufacturing industries in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Results indicate that the impact of the repressive wage policies during the 1965-67 and 1973 wage-sqeeze periods varied by size of firm and ownership and with general economic conditions

The paper explores the determinants of investment in Latin America. The regressions use quadrennial panel data for the period 1970-1985 in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela. The decline in private investment shares seems to result from the deterioration in the terms of trade, the decline in growth, a reduction in complementary public investment, increased macroeconomic instability, and from a large stock of foreign debt. The real exchange rate and the real rate of depreciation have no significant role in the determination of private investment

The paper presents a survey of the main theoretical schools approaching the determination of income distribution profiles. Since Adam Smith, classical political economy had its focus on the relations between functional income distribution and the development process, proposing that growth could be promoted by an increase in the profit share of national income. Keynes changed the emphasis to personal distribution that would be related to the formation of the various elements of aggregate demand. The paper ends with a brief examination of some studies on Brazilian income distribution profiles

Les auteurs analysent les resultats des elections pour le poste de gouverneur d'etat a Rio de Janeiro en 1982. Afin de minimiser certains problemes notoires lies a l'inference ecologique, ils se servent de methodes de regression ecologique associees aux biais d'agregation spatiale. Les resultats laissent entendre que les clivages raciaux ont eu, particulierement dans le grand Rio de Janeiro, un role important et independant des clivages de classe dans la determination des suffrages attribues au candidat vainqueur, L. Brizola. La proportion de mulatres se revele etre la variable structurelle la plus relevante pour l'explication des suffrages brizolistes