Brazil and Globalisation
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- The impact of privatisation in developing countries
- J. Nellis; N. Birdsall / Center for Global Development, USA, 2005
- This report looks at the privatisation of state-owned enterprises as a market reform. The volume brings together a comprehensive set of country studies on the effects of privatisation on people. It considers who the winners and losers...
- Has an opening of the economy in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico helped quality employment creation?
- C. Ernst / International Institute for Labour Studies, ILO, 2005
- This study describes the trade liberalisation process as well as the general patterns of trade and export performance of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico and attempts to assess sectoral labour market impacts. It investigates whether this ...
- Trade liberalisation and the wage gap between formal and informal workers
- F. Soares / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2005
- This paper assesses whether or not the trade liberalisation process in Brazil had any effect on both the reduction in the wage differential between formal and informal workers and the fall in the proportion of formal workers. In order...
- Effects of financial integration on emerging markets
- Bank for International Settlements, 2005
- This document is a compilation of papers dealing with the effects of financial integration on emerging markets. The compilation holds a number of background papers which explore general issues of globalisation and monetary policy in e...
- 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...
- Home-based workers: neglected by policy-makers and labour organisers?
- Ruth Pearson / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
- Homeworkers are a flexible and cheap labour force and almost 80 percent of them are female. They are ‘invisible’ in the regular labour market and their interests and priorities are not at the forefront of political or labour...
- Local development approaches to vocational training in a globalised world
- F. Casanova / Inter-American Research and Documentation Centre on Vocational Training (ILO), 2004
- This paper explores new local development approaches as opportunities for improvement in training and youth employment policies. The approaches described and the experiences outlined in the paper open up areas for reflection for the w...
- South-South scientific collaboration addresses developing country concerns
- D. Dickson / SciDev.Net, 2003
- Nations such as Brazil, India, South Africa and China are increasingly acknowledging that they share not only common social and economic challenges, but also common goals in international trade negotiations. This paper argues that new...
- The loss of power of the unions in Brazil
- A.M. Cardoso / International Institute for Labour Studies, ILO, 2002
- This paper assesses the situation of unions in Brazil. It argues that the demise of the conditions that favoured adversarial strategies, and the emergence of favourable conditions for class compromise both at the local and national le...
- Understanding the business cycles of emerging economies in international capital markets
- P.A. Neumeyer; F Perri / Global Development Network, 2002
- This paper documents the empirical relation between the interest rates that emerging economies face in international capital markets and their business cycles, using data including quarterly data for Argentina during 1983-2000 and for...
- Theatre of the Oppressed
- Theatre for the socially disadvantaged
