Brazil and Globalisation
- Capital:
Brasília - Population:
201103330 - Size:
8511965.0 Km2
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- Analysing skills, productivity and employment in Latin America
- M.A. Gallart / International Labour Organization, 2008
- This study aims to illustrate the relationships between training and workers’ skills, productivity and the growth of quality employment in Latin American societies. It analyses existing information and case studies of four diffe...
- Tackling poverty with minimum wages in Brazil
- Sara Lemos / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
- Minimum wage legislation aims to tackle poverty by increasing the wages of the lowest-paid and most vulnerable workers. But evidence on the impact of minimum wages in developing countries, both in the public and private sectors, is no...
- What future for the U.S?
- F. Cripps; T. McKinley / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2008
- Following the projection up until 2015 which predicted a falling dollar and a US recession in an earlier paper, this current document builds on that and projects outcomes for 2020 and assumes a sizable yearly U.S. fiscal stimulus for ...
- Impact of globalisation on indigenous Latin America
- B. Bell; J. Houghton / Global Policy Forum, 2004
- This paper addresses the impact of recent globalisation trends on indigenous Latin America. It particularly focuses on the effects on autonomy, control over natural resources, and displacement. The authors argue that globa...
- FDI led by liberalisation is not achieving desired outcomes
- K. Gallagher; K. López / Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, 2008
- According to a report by the Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas the impact of foreign investment liberalisation in Latin America shows that, with some exceptions, foreign investment has fallen far short of st...
- Supermarkets to spread in the developing world by 2015
- W. B. Traill / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
- Supermarkets will continue to spread throughout the developing world over the next ten years. Income growth, urbanisation, and openness to foreign direct investment will be the key factors determining supermarkets’ increased mark...
- New powers for global change?: Brazil as a regional player and an emerging global power: foreign policy strategies and the impact on the new international order
- P. Roberto de Almeida / Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V., 2007
- Brazil is increasingly becoming an important player in world politics, both within the South American context and globally as one of the so-called BRICs. This essay examines the main lines of Brazilian foreign policy in the current pr...
- Regulatory gaps undermine corporate governance in Brazil’s privatised steel industry
- Edmund Amann; João Carlos Ferraz; Germano Mendes de Paula / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
- In 1988 Brazil embarked on a huge privatisation programme. The privatisation of the steel sector began in the same year. This proved to be successful in terms of improving financial and productive efficiency in the steel industry. But...
- Alternative paths to adjustment in Brazil
- Aaron Schneider / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
- Brazilian states have responded to economic stress in different ways. Some responded quickly introducing market-oriented reforms, while others delayed their adjustment and adopted market-governing strategies. The difference was largel...
- Examining the effects of neo-liberal policies on market and firm competitiveness in Brazil
- E. Amman; W. Baer / Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2005
- This paper examines the degree of market and firm competitiveness that developed in Brazil in the 15 years since the introduction of neo-liberal policies. In particular, the authors seek to evaluate the extent to which trade liberalis...
- Theatre of the Oppressed
- Theatre for the socially disadvantaged
