In response to high and chronic inflation, countries have adopted different stabilization policies. However, the extent …

This paper assesses Brazil's growth performance from a long-term perspective, using crosscountry and panel estimation … macroeconomic stability and several reforms have helped raise per capita growth in Brazil since the mid-1990s. The results also show …

This Selected Issues paper analyzes pace of economic growth for Brazil. Moderating activity and stubbornly elevated … inflation since 2010 have led to a reevaluation of Brazil’s long-term potential growth rate. Growth accounting suggests that …

expectations to provide a comparison of inflation persistence in Brazil with a sample of inflation targeting (IT) countries. This … approach suggests that inflation persistence increased in Brazil through early 2013, in contrast to many of its IT peers …Inflation persistence is sometimes defined as the tendency for price shocks to push the inflation rate away from its …

Intuitively core inflation is understood as a measure of inflation where noisy price movements are avoided. This is … discarded. Therefore, we propose a new type of core inflation measure, one that takes simultaneously into account both …

This paper examines the long-run relationship between consumer price index industrial workers (CPI-IW) inflation and …, there is a negative long-run relationship between inflation and economic growth in India. We also find statistically …-significant inflation-growth threshold effects in the case of states with persistently-elevated inflation rates of above 5.5 percent. This …

finds that recent takeoffs are associated with stronger economic conditions, such as lower post-takeoff debt and inflation …

We examine corporate sector vulnerabilities in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. First, we identify stylized …