Search

Reset

Searching with a thematic focus on Finance policy in Brazil

Showing 31-40 of 138 results

Pages

  • Document

    Measuring open data’s impact of Brazilian national and sub-national budget transparency websites and its iImpacts on people’s rights

    2014
    Having access to budget information is critical for ensuring transparency in the public sector, thus enhancing its effectiveenss and accountability. Recently, a movement was launched for data to be open, that is, freely available, in a timely fashion and to any citizen. This is a new process that is still under way and whose features vary according to the country where it is taking place.
  • Document

    Development Banks from the BRICS

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    The BRIC acronym was created at the beginning of the 2000s to represent a group of four fast-growing economies –Brazil, Russia, India and China – and was changed to BRICS in December 2010 with the inclusion of South Africa.
  • Document

    South Africa, Africa, and the BRICS: progress, problems, and prospects: policy brief

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2014
    The Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town, South Africa, hosted a two-day policy advisory group seminar in Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa, 2014.
  • Document

    South Africa and the BRICS: progress, problems, and prospects

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2014
    The BRICS countries played a pivotal role in enabling other developing and emerging economies to weather the impact of the global financial crisis of 2008–2009. Participation in the BRICS grouping offers an opportunity for South Africa to deepen and broaden its bilateral engagement with Brazil, Russia, India, and China.
  • Document

    Private investment and international development: the Brazilian experience

    BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS, 2014
    This Monitor discusses the increasing tendency that links development cooperation initiatives with private investment.
  • Document

    Research briefing: institutions for macroeconomic stability in Brazil

    International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014
    Possibly the greatest contemporary challenge for Brazil is to return to the cycles of institutional reform that were implemented at the end of the twentieth century, which could then serve as a reference or example for other emerging economies. But, as this briefing argues, amongst policy makers, there is little impetus to review, much less restructure, monetary, tax and fiscal institutions.
  • Document

    Institutions for macro stability in Brazil: inflation targets and fiscal responsibility

    International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014
    Monetary and fiscal institutions have played a decisive role in the stabilisation of the Brazilian economy since the mid-1990s. Brazil’s experience of designing and managing institutions to this end is likely to be of interest to other emerging and low-or middle-income economies.
  • Document

    Research briefing: explaining the decline in earnings inequality in Brazil: 1995 - 2012

    International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014
    Long one of the world’s most unequal countries, Brazil has experienced a significant reduction in income inequality since macroeconomic stabilisation around 1994-1995.
  • Document

    Research briefing: taxation, redistribution and the social contract in Brazil

    International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014
    The current Brazilian tax system is beset by complexity and inefficiencies. In distributional terms, the tax system is neutral in the sense that rates of tax are roughly similar across the income distribution. Proposals for more substantial tax reform have never materialised.
  • Document

    Taxation, redistribution and the social contract in Brazil

    International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014
    The paper explores theoretically and empirically Brazil’s tax revenue from a political and political economy perspective. The absence of ‘big bang’ reforms to the tax code and tax administration suggests that policy models are less directly relevant to explaining the rise in the tax/GDP ratio.

Pages