To ensure the high standard of quality expected by the PMPE-IDP, the IDP understands that a well-conducted internationalization process of the Master's is essential, with relevant investment in the exchange of experience with highly reputable institutions in Brazil and abroad, publication of reputable journals , international research projects and participation in events abroad. The IDP offers its faculty and students the opportunity to undertake exchange programs at renowned educational institutions abroad. The objective of these partnerships is to ensure that PMPE-IDP participants exchange ideas, knowledge and experiences with academics and professionals from other countries.

This is a differential of the PMPE-IDP that allows professors to deepen their networks of contacts and for students to have contact with other experiences and realities, as well as the construction of a network with international references in the area of ​​Economics.

We understand that these partnerships are in accordance with the concept of internationalization of a stricto sensu postgraduate program defined in the Area Document, which establishes that internationalization “generates a virtuous circle and results in the attraction of foreign students and researchers that contribute to establish and strengthen research centers, contributing to advances the quality of academic excellence in the field”.

It should be noted that the IDP has already adopted such a policy in the Institution, encouraging and promoting a broad international insertion of the Master's in Law, Master's in Public Administration and Master's in Economics programs. The international agreements currently signed by the IDP and in force with international institutions, in which the joint development of teaching and research activities, exchange of students, researchers and professors, as well as the shared publication of articles, are established:

Penn State University – Pennsylvania, USA
• École Nationale d'Administration (ENA) – Paris, France
•The University of Texas at Austin – USA
• American University – Washington, D.C., USA.
• Steinbeis School of International Business and Entrepreneurship – Berlin, Germany
• Berkeley International Study Program – USA
• The University of Oklahoma - USA
• University Nova Lisboa – Portugal
• University of Granada - Spain
• University of Macau - China

PMPE intends to expand international agreements to other internationally renowned institutions in the field of Economics, initially taking advantage of the network of contacts already built by the faculty of PMPE-IDP, in order to achieve maximum academic excellence in the area.

In 2020, it is important to mention among the most relevant results of partnerships within the scope of current exchanges the course offered to IDP Masters students "Introduction to Political Risk Analysis", entirely in English, taught by Professor Matthew Taylor, from American University.

In this regard, it is worth noting that the permanent faculty of the PMPE-IDP has deep experience of academic and professional production with foreign institutions of excellence.

More than half of our faculty even had a doctorate or post-doctoral studies abroad, in addition to a period as a visiting professor or researcher in first-rate foreign institutions. Due to the careful analysis carried out of the Area Document and of the most recent Evaluation Report, the academic and professional production experience of the professors (detailed in the professors' Lattes curriculum) indicates that it is in line with Capes' criteria for the evaluation of Programs with grade 5 or superior, which shows the quality of the teaching staff of the proposal.

An example of this is the positioning of our professors in the Brazilian Ranking of authors in RePEC. RePEc (Research Papers in Economics), by its very definition, is a collaborative effort by hundreds of volunteers in 102 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics and related sciences. The heart of the project is a decentralized bibliographic database of working papers, journal articles, books, book chapters and software components, all maintained by volunteers. The collected data is used in various services that serve the collected metadata to users or enhance it.

To date, more than 2,000 archives from 102 countries have contributed nearly 3 million searches from 3,500 journals and 5,000 working paper series. More than 57,000 authors have registered and 75,000 email subscriptions are serviced weekly.

RePEc makes world and national rankings of institutions and authors, according to the impact of their productions. In the Brazilian Ranking, which contains 190 positions, the PMPE-IDP has five permanent professors, a very high number, surpassing the number of professors of some academic master's degrees of concept five.

The Brazilian ranking can be consulted through the link: https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.brazil.html#authors https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.brazil.html#authors The referred permanent professors that appear in the ranking are, in order:

• Adolfo Sachsida;
• José Luiz Rossi Júnior;
• Guilherme Mendes Resende;
• Gustavo José de Guimarães e Souza;
• Leonardo Monteiro Monasterio.

It is also noteworthy that, in the exercise of their professional activities in addition to teaching, part of the faculty of PMPE works in direct contact with foreign researchers of great impact in the area. Professors José Luiz Rossi Jr (Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank - IDB), Guilherme Resende (Chief Economist at CADE) and Leonardo Monastério (ENAP and IPEA) are especially mentioned.

As an example of this internationalization allowed by the work of these professionals, in the optional course offered in 2020 "Challenges for Infrastructure Regulation in Brazil", there was a lecture by Professor Tomás Serebrisky, PhD from the University of Chicago and head of the economic advisory of the Department of Transport and IDB Energy in Washington.

It is also mentioned how the promotion of internationalization promoted by the teachers' contact network, the "Ctrl Enter" Podcast, organized by the PMPE-IDP teacher Leonardo Monastério, received international researchers, as in the episode with William Summerhill (UCLA), about his article "Big Social Savings in a Small Laggard Economy: Railroad-Led Growth in Brazil", and the first episode of the podcast, with Alberto Cairo (Univ. Miami), on data visualization.

As already mentioned, the IDP Master's Program in Economics has a policy of incentives for the participation of the Program's professors in events abroad, for the presentation of works, courses and period to work as a visiting professor.

In addition to the monetary value of the incentive for publication in articles qualified by CAPES, for participation in international events, the IDP pays for the registration in the international event, the equivalent of US$500 and the payment of the air ticket.