This Selected Issues paper analyzes pace of economic growth for Brazil. Moderating activity and stubbornly elevated … implementation of the infrastructure investment program, higher domestic saving, and structural reforms. …

, although it has slowed somewhat more recently. After a protracted period of weakness, investment has begun to recover in recent …

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 … interest rate-thus helping to foster investment and growth. …

results suggest that maintaining fiscal discipline while increasing public investment in Brazil is likely to ease real … spending playing a key role. To illustrate the importance of these findings, the paper focuses on the case of Brazil. Our …

This paper characterizes the term structure of Treasury bond yields for Brazil, and estimates a Nelson-Siegel Model to …

and income inequality in Brazil over the period 1995-2011. The results indicate that a tighter fiscal stance at the sub …

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 …