Brazil and Finance policy
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- The BLDS finance collection
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- Community forest enterprises: combining avoided deforestation and poverty reduction
- D. Macqueen / International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007
- Forests are not just crucial for keeping the global environment stable; they are also a lifeline for hundreds of millions of the world's poor. This paper presents community forest enterprise as a possible solution, which combines both...
- Accurate forecasting of bond yields in Brazil
- J. Vicente; B.M. Tabak / Banco Central do Brasil, 2007
- This paper assesses the ability of different models to forecast the yield curve in the Brazilian fixed income market. Affine term structure models have become the main tool to explain stylised facts and price fixed income derivatives....
- Lessons for civil society groups and donors interested in undertaking applied budget work
- P. de Renzio; W. Krafchik / Overseas Development Institute, 2007
- This study examines the issues of budget accountability and budget policies. Within budget acountability it looks at budget groups’ impact on levels of budget transparency, public literacy and awareness of budget issues, an...
- Changes in relative prices has important distributive consequences
- S. S. D. Soares; R. G. Osório / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007
- This paper analyses the impact of relative prices on the evolution of welfare and inequality in Brazil from 1995 to 2005. The authors argue that: inflation during the 1995-2005 period was distributionally progressive up...
- Conditional cash transfer programmes as a tool to reduce inequality
- S. Soares,; R.G. Osorio,; F.V. Soares, / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007
- This working paper examines whether Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programmes have had an inequality reducing effect in three Latin American countries: Brazil, Mexico and Chile. Although the impact of the CCTs in the three cou...
- TNCs bring little value to Brazil’s local paper industry
- S. dos Santos Rocha; L. Togeiro de Almeida / Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas, 2007
- Foreign direct investment (FDI) by transnational corporations (TNCs) can potentially promote sustainable development by introducing new, cleaner technologies and building human capital. In practice, however, the effect of FDI on local...
- A practitioners guide to budget analysis
- P. de Renzio; W. Krafchik / International Budget Partnership, 2007
- Can civil society improve the transparency, accountability and impact of public spending? While anecdotal information has been very encouraging, there is not yet sufficient information available to answer this central question. This p...
- NGOs increasing participation, accountability and social equity within the budgeting process
- M. Robinson / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
- Civil society initiatives to improve budget transparency and influence government spending priorities are being introduced in developing countries. This IDS working paper reports on research carried out on six civil society budget gro...
- Participatory budgeting: how to maintain the support of the middle classes in taking from the rich to give to the poor
- M. Baquero; A. Schneider / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
- How can governments raise taxes and improve public services for poorer groups, while at the same time securing the political support of those with wealth? In Porto Alegre, this working paper suggests, participatory budgeting ha...
- Anti-poor price changes in Brazil
- H. Son; N. Kakwani / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006
- Most poverty line calculations do not consider the impact that changes in relative prices can have on the poor. This paper offers a methodology that determines whether price changes benefit the poor proportionally more, or less, than ...
- National Association of Postgraduate Centers in Economics, Brazil (ANPEC)
- National Association of Postgraduate Centers in Economics of Brazil
