Brazil and Finance policy
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- IMF and deforestation
- J. Tockman / American Lands Alliance, 2001
- Report which alleges that International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans and policies have caused extensive deforestation in each of the 15 countries of Africa, Latin America, and Asia studied. This forest loss, the author claims, has...
- Tax rates in Brazil and South Africa
- M. Moore; E.S. Lieberman / Governance and Development Review, IDS, 2002
- Brazil and South Africa have much in common. In particular, they are both large middle income countries with very high levels of income inequality where whites historically have dominated over blacks. They differ markedly in te...
- What political factors account for the widespread adoption and maintenance of market-oriented reforms in Latin America in recent years?
- L.E. Armijo; P. Faucher / Eldis Document Store, 2002
- This essay examines the course of market reforms—more polemically known as "neoliberalism"—in the four most industrialized countries in Latin America during the final decades of the twentieth century. Through a qualit...
- The private sectors, national governments and international financial institutions must co-operate to avoid future crises
- A. Babic; A. Zigman / Croatian National Bank, Croatia, 2001
- This paper provides an overview of currency crises theories, methods for crises prediction, implications of currency crises for economic policy, as well as different currency crises episodes in the 1990s, namely the Asian, Russian and...
- Has inflation targetting really contributed to improved economic performance?
- Frederic S. Mishkin; K Schmidt-Hebbel / Banco Central de Chile / Central Bank of Chile, 2001
- This paper provides a brief review of the main design features of 18 inflation targeting experiences in industrial and emerging economies and gives a statistical analysis as to whether countries under inflation targeting are structura...
- How effective have inflation targeting policies been in the Latin America region?
- V. Corbo; K. Schmidt-Hebbel / Banco Central de Chile / Central Bank of Chile, 2001
- This paper analyses Latin America's recent experience with the use of inflation targeting (IT)in the light of the region's progress toward eradicating high inflation. The authors assess the implementation and results of inflation targ...
- Have tax levies on bank withdrawals in six Latin American countries been successful?
- I. Coelho; L. Ebrill; V. Summers / International Monetary Fund, 2001
- This paper investigates whether the decision by six Latin American countries, to levy taxes on withdrawals from bank accounts has been successful. The levying of taxes in this manner has been viewed as a convenient tax handle during a...
- Globalisation and supply chain networks: the auto industry in Brazil and India
- J. Humphrey / Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999
- Examines the restructuring of the auto industry, and in particular the auto components sector in Brazil and India. In both countries, trade liberalisation and changes in auto industry policy led to large nflows of FDI and major change...
- Structural adjustment and the institutional dimensions of agricultural research and development in Brazil: soybeans, wheat and sugar cane
- John Wilkinson; Bernardo Sor / OECD Development Centre, 1992
- Structural adjustment, liberalisation and the pressures of technological change are having major impact on the institutional organisation of the agro-industrial sector. In industrialised countries, the private sector is positioned to ...
- IMF study admits that country-based evidence now suggests that controlling both the inflows and outflows of capital has, to varying degrees, helped countries to protect themselves from the effects of the Asian financial crisis.
- A. Ariyoshi; K. Habermeier; B. Laurens; I. Otker-Robe; J.I. Canales-Kriljenko; A. Kirilenko / International Monetary Fund, 2000
- Aims to develop a deeper understanding of the role that capital controls may play in coping with volatile movements of capital, as well as complex issues surrounding capital account liberalization. It provides a detailed analysis of s...
- National Association of Postgraduate Centers in Economics, Brazil (ANPEC)
- National Association of Postgraduate Centers in Economics of Brazil
