Cedeplar

Name

Cedeplar

Legal name

Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional da Faculdade de Ciências Econômicas (Cedeplar)

Website

https://cedeplar.ufmg.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

1967

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Higher Education and Academic Research

NAICS

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (6113), Educational Services (611)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

University/College Continuing Education (Extension) Programs (EDAAAEAA)

Keywords

• Demography research
• Graduate economics
• Population studies
• Regional development
• Academic publishing

Headquarters

HQ city

Belo Horizonte

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. Government Funding and Research Grants: Funded by Brazilian government agencies including CNPq, CAPES, FINEP, UNFPA, and international organizations such as Rockefeller Foundation and Hewlett Foundation. Also supported by World Bank loan agreements for environmental sciences development.

Core offering

Cedeplar delivers Master's and Doctorate graduate programs in Demography and Economics, plus postdoctoral research training, at UFMG's Faculty of Economic Sciences. The center also conducts applied research in population studies, regional development, and economic policy, and disseminates findings through publication series (Textos para Discussão, Coleção População & Economia), academic journals (Nova Economia), and theses/dissertations.

Product overview

Cedeplar is a research and graduate education center at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) offering two core graduate programs: the Master's and Doctorate in Demography (CAPES concept 7) and the Master's and Doctorate in Economics (CAPES concept 7). The institution publishes academic outputs including the Textos para Discussão series (500+ papers since the 1970s), the Coleção População & Economia book collection (since 2003), doctoral theses and dissertations, and the Nova Economia academic journal (since 1990). Cedeplar also maintains computational infrastructure (Rede Cedeplar) with servers and databases for processing large-scale demographic and economic data.

Differentiator

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Functional benefit

Products and services

• Programa de Pós-Graduação em Demografia (Graduate Program in Demography) Master's and Doctorate degree program in Demography covering formal demography, economic demography, mortality and health, fertility and reproductive health, migration, family and population. Rated CAPES Concept 7, the highest grade, and ranked as the best Demography program in Brazil. Targets graduate students and researchers pursuing advanced studies in population science.
• Programa de Pós-Graduação em Economia (Graduate Program in Economics) Master's and Doctorate degree program in Economics with a concentration in Regional Economics, featuring a pluralistic theoretical approach and internationalization. Rated CAPES Concept 7, the highest grade. Targets graduate students and researchers pursuing advanced studies in economics.
• Textos para Discussão (Discussion Papers Series) Institutional publication series with 500+ works published since the 1970s, covering research outputs in demography and economics produced by Cedeplar researchers and graduate students.
• Coleção População & Economia (Population & Economy Book Collection) Book collection launched in 2003 serving as a vehicle for disseminating studies and research conducted by Cedeplar researchers on population and economic themes.
• Revista Nova Economia (Nova Economia Journal) Academic journal created in 1990 publishing theoretical and applied economics articles and related fields, reflecting Cedeplar's academic tradition.
• Rede Cedeplar (Computational Network Infrastructure) Large computational infrastructure with Linux and Sun Solaris servers (32 and 64-bit), storage and backup systems, and fiber optic connections supporting approximately 400 local and remote users across about 250 client machines. Provides data processing capabilities for large demographic and economic databases including census data and surveys.

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Ideal customer profiles2 records

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Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• CELADE (Centro Latino-Americano de Demografia)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLatin American Demographic Center - South-South technical cooperation agreement for faculty and student exchange, joint seminars, and collaborative research.
• Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (Moçambique)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSouth-South technical cooperation and institutional exchange agreement with university in Mozambique for faculty and student exchanges.
• University of FloridacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNorth-South exchange agreement for interdisciplinary programs in environmental studies involving Cedeplar, UFMG's Institute of Biological Sciences, and UF's Biological and Social Sciences departments.
• University of Texas at AustincoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerExchange agreement for Brazilian population studies development, with faculty and student exchange between Texas and Brazilian demographic centers including Cedeplar and NEPO-UNICAMP.
• University of WisconsincoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTri-institutional agreement involving three centers from Wisconsin and three from Latin America (CEDDU-Mexico, PCP-Costa Rica, Cedeplar) for interdisciplinary training in population and health research.
• IPEA (Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerApplied Economic Research Institute maintaining institutional ties for research collaboration and data sharing.
• IBGE (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBrazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics - institutional affiliation providing access to census data and demographic statistics.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• IBGE (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística): Brazilian federal statistics agency producing census and demographic data. Cedeplar has a core institutional partnership with IBGE for census access, making it a data ecosystem partner rather than a competitor.
• UN DESA Population Division: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs population unit. Functions as a global aggregator and producer of demographic data and research; comparable in mission (population research and policy) but operates at UN-global scale rather than nationally.
• UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund): UN agency funding population research and demographic studies globally. Cedeplar is a core financial partner of UNFPA, making this an ecosystem enabler rather than a direct competitor.

Regional players

• CEDES (Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad): Argentine social sciences and economic research center with comparable focus on development economics and population studies. Functions as a regional peer operating in Spanish-language Latin America rather than Brazil.
• CEDDU (Centro de Estudios Demográficos, Urbanos y Ambientales) at El Colegio de México: Mexican demographic, urban, and environmental research center at El Colegio de México. Directly comparable as a Latin American demography research hub; Cedeplar is explicitly listed as a tri-institutional partner with CEDDU.

Direct peers

• Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital: Austrian-led international demography research consortium (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU). Comparable as an interdisciplinary demography research and graduate training center focused on population dynamics and human capital.
• NEPO (Núcleo de Estudos de População) at UNICAMP: Brazilian population studies research center at the State University of Campinas. Directly comparable to Cedeplar as a leading Brazilian demography research group; the two centers collaborate on US-Latin American population studies (e.g., with University of Texas at Austin).
• Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research: World-leading demographic research institute in Germany. Directly comparable as a premier global center for population research with graduate training; a benchmark for research output and methodology in the same field.

Broad incumbents

• IPEA (Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada): Brazilian government-affiliated applied economics research institute. Comparable to Cedeplar in producing economic and policy research at scale, but with broader policy mandate and direct federal linkage rather than a university base.
• ECLAC/CEPAL (UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean): UN regional commission for Latin America conducting economic and demographic research and policy work. Cedeplar was founded with CEPAL/BNDE support and maintains ongoing institutional ties; CEPAL is the parent lineage of CELADE.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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