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  Educational expansion and income distribution: a micro-simulation for Ceará

  Departamento de Economia, Pontificía Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2002

  This paper analyses the likely effects of different education policies on poverty and inequality in the Brazilian state of Ceará.
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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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  Weight of evidence: is São Paulo’s air pollution linked to low birth weight?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Studies from a number of cities have indicated a link between ambient air pollution and poor health, particularly in vulnerable groups such as young children and the elderly.
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  Do structural reforms always succeed?: lessons from Brazil

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper discusses Brazil’s attempts to improve sustainable growth through stabilisation programmes over the last twenty years, and more recently, structural reforms in line with the Washington Consensus Agenda.
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  Circumstances of post-neonatal deaths in Ceara, Northeast Brazil: mothers health-care seeking behaviours during their infants fatal illness

  Social Science and Medicine, 2000

  This paper, published in Social Science and Medicine, presents the results of a study examining the relationship between mothers' care-seeking behaviour and infant death from illness in Ceara, Northeast Brazil.
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  Multidimensional inequality: an empirical application to Brazil

  Poverty Research Unit, Sussex, 2004

  This paper illustrates two empirical approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality. The first approach is based on the analysis of the independent distribution of monetary and nonmonetary welfare attributes.
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  The reality of virtual reality: the internet’s impact within gender equality advocacy communities in Latin America

  Information Technology and International Cooperation Programme, SSRC, 2004

  This report (based on experience in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico) argues that:the potential of ICT to foster democratic relations and effective strategies within civil society depends on the consciousness with which advocates adopt, share, and deploy the technologythe internet is a critical resource for marginalized or socially suspect groups and subjects, providing a unique space for
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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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  Do informal workers queue for formal jobs in Brazil?

  Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada / Institute of Applied Economic Research, Brazil, 2004

  This paper investigates the exsitence of a ‘job queue’ for formal (registered) jobs in the Brazilian labour market.
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  Challenges of the private health plans regulation in Brazil

  Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada / Institute of Applied Economic Research, Brazil, 2004

  This paper discusses the possible ways in which the National Agency of Supplemental Health (ANS), a regulatory body created in 2000, can help ameliorate the impact of Brazil’s economic crisis on the health plan industry.

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