Brazil and Finance policy
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- Can social insurance effectively reach the poor?
- S., Dercon; T., Bold; C. Calvo / Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2005
- This paper discusses the scope for extending insurance to the poor in Latin America and Carribbean (LAC) countries. It highlights the need to reduce risk and its consequences, as current systems do not provide sufficient protection. O...
- China’s rapid growth provides both competition and new markets for Brazilian producers
- M. de P. Abreu / Departamento de Economia, Pontificía Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2005
- This paper examines the impact of China’s expanded role in the world economy on trade and investment flows to and from Brazil. It also looks at the challenges emerging for the Brazilian private and public sectors, and the policie...
- Design of the institutions is crucial for a successful tax reform in Brazil
- S. Souza / Canadian Foundation for the Americas, 2005
- This paper examines the problems of reform of Brazil's current tax system. In particular it focuses on the difficulties of reconciling global pressures with demands for tax reduction as well as the need to invest more public resources...
- Minimum income programmes could combat inequality
- A.L.N.H. Barbosa; E.P.S. Fiuza; M. Scharth; S. Asano / Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada / Institute of Applied Economic Research, Brazil, 2003
- Commodity taxes play an important role in Brazil, accounting for around 60 per cent of total tax revenue, and providing a major tool for the redistribution of income in one of the most unequal societies in the world. Using data from a...
- What has Brazil's Workers Party acheived?
- D. Green / Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2003
- A year after the leader of Brazil’s Workers Party (PT), Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office, this paper explores what he has achieved in terms of economic policy, debt burden, social policy and foreign policy. The...
- Fixed exchange rates associated with lower interest rate volatility in Mercosur countries
- A. Belke; K. Geisslreither; D. Gros / Institute of Economics, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile / Instituto de Economia, Pontificia , 2004
- A key feature of fixed exchange rate systems, under which the value of a country’s currency is fixed with regard to some other currency or currencies (such as the US dollar and/or the euro), is that exchange rate volatility tends...
- Evidence that the economies of Brazil and Argentina are compatible
- M. Coiteux; A. Geandet / Asociación Argentina de Economía Política, Buenos Aires, 2002
- The collapse of the convertibility regime in Argentina raised the issue of whether the MERCOSUR countries should form a monetary union. This paper focuses on Argentina and Brazil, and uses an equilibrium real exchange rate criterion i...
- Outline of the positive achievements of the World Bank’s new longer-term loan mechanisms.
- E. Javier; V. Paqueo; L.B. Rawlings; A. Rodriguez / World Bank, 2003
- This briefing paper provides an overview of the main elements and achievements of the World Bank’s Programmatic Structural Adjustment Loans/Credits (PSAL/PSAC) in Peru, Brazil and Colombia. Introduced out of recognition of...
- Collaborating between community development initiatives and the private sector in Mozambique, Brazil and the Philippines
- A. S. DuPree; D. Winder / Global Philanthropy and Foundation Building, Synergos Institute, 2000
- This chapter from the book 'Foundation building sourcebook: a practitioners guide based on experience in Africa, Asia and Latin America' describes several approaches to building a financial bridge between the private sector and commun...
- Tax scheme promotes conservation and management of protected areas, Brazil
- M. Grieg-Gran / International Institute for Environment and Development, 2000
- This paper evaluates the Brazilian tax revenue sharing scheme, ICMS Ecológico, designed to promote the conservation and management of protected areas. The scheme aims to compensate municipal governments for the loss of p...
- National Association of Postgraduate Centers in Economics, Brazil (ANPEC)
- National Association of Postgraduate Centers in Economics of Brazil
