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Innovation is a broad topic, about which much has been written. Almost every kind of public policy has either a direct or an indirect impact on factors that affect innovative activity. The purpose of this paper is to draw out the key implications from selected studies concerning a small number...
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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 …
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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 …
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relative to Brazil’s main trade partners are found to be significant determinants of the real effective exchange rate in the …
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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 …
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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 …
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The possibility that a country’s external current account may adjust nonlinearly to shocks is attracting increasing attention in the empirical literature. To shed further light on this issue in the context of emerging-market economies, this paper uses Brazilian data to estimate the...
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. This Working Paper relates to the 2009 OECD Economic Survey of Brazil (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/brazil).<P>L'efficacité des …
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This paper reviews the main elements of social security reform in Brazil since 1998 and discusses areas where further …
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This paper tests for horizontal tax competition in the VAT for a sample of Brazilian states in the period 1985-2001. The states have considerable autonomy to set their VAT rates and bases, often using this tax as an industrial policy tool. The empirical findings, based on the estimation of a tax...
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