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    Lula plus one: Brazil after one year of PT Government

    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 paper points out that one year on, some of the shine has worn off that victory.
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    On the relationship between exchange rates and interest rates: evidence from the Southern Cone

    Institute of Economics, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile / Instituto de Economia, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, 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 to be lower than under flexible systems.
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    Does monetary union make sense for Brazil and Argentina?

    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.
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    Protecting the poor through programmatic adjustment lending in Peru, Brazil and Colombia

    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 the inadequacy of project or sectoral adjustment loans in supporting long-term incremental social reform, the PSALs are designed to provide fast-disbursing, flexible, longer-t
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    Creating a financial bridge to the private sector

    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 community development initiatives.
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    Fiscal incentives for biodiversity conservation: the ICMS ecológico in Brazil

    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 potential tax revenue from the designation of protected areas, mainly by the state and federal government.
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    Financial stability and growth in emerging economies: the role of the financial sector

    Forum on Debt and Development, 2003
    This book analyses the issues that determine financial stability in developing countries, such as the robustness of their domestic financial sector, the soundness of their macroeconomic policies, the volatility of international capital flows, and the overall stability of the global financial system.
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    The IMF: wrong diagnosis, wrong medicine

    Oxfam, 1999
    Prepared as part of Oxfam International's Education Now campaign, this briefing paper evaluates the International Monetary Fund (IMF), offering information, statistics, case studies and recommendations for change.
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    Policy (in) coherence in European Union support to developing countries: a three country case study

    ActionAid International, 2003
    What is the impact of a range of EU policies on poor people in Bangladesh, Brazil and Kenya? This paper examines key policy areas (including trade, aid, agricultural policies and support to Foreign Direct Investment) to assess the coherence of EU policy in supporting development.
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    The IMF and World Bank: undermining democracy and rolling back the state?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Why are anti-IMF protests sweeping the developing world? Is it privileged students and anarchists who are behind the wave of unrest? Who are taking to the streets and how are their livelihoods being affected by liberalisation? Are Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) merely Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) in another guise?

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