. Raising educational outcomes for all and enhancing training programmes would help improve labour supply and productivity …

it easier for the many small and medium-sized firms to move into the formal sector, thereby raising productivity through …

Low investment rates are limiting Brazil’s future potential growth rate. This paper analyses a number of potential … domestic saving appears to be a major constraint to higher investment rates in Brazil. Due to high levels of current … investment incentives. This Working Paper relates to the 2011 OECD Economic Review of Brazil 2011 (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/Brazil …

Brazil under-invested in infrastructure for over three decades, and infrastructure investment rates have come up only … consortia to reap economies of scale. This Working Paper relates to the 2011 OECD Economic Review of Brazil 2011 (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/Brazil …

This paper seeks to identify factors explaining the appreciation of the Brazilian real observed since 2003, which was … temporarily interrupted only during episodes of financial turbulence. Net foreign assets and the productivity differential … relative to Brazil’s main trade partners are found to be significant determinants of the real effective exchange rate in the …

This paper identifies refinements to the macroeconomic framework that will help Brazil to achieve strong performance in … Review of Brazil 2011 (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/Brazil).<P>Ajuster les politiques macroéconomiques pour soutenir la …

complemented by country-specific regressions for Brazil and Indonesia on account of these countries. experiences with fiscal …-voice (and trustful of strangers in the case of Brazil) than their counterparts that have not been exposed to decentralisation …