This comprehensive report-actually four compartmentalized reports in one-- focuses on policies to improve Brazil … integration options ? What domestic policies should be adopted to enhance Brazil's export response to trade openness? What policy … results for Brazil, the implications for the distribution of income, and the reallocation of output among sectors. Results for …

During the last century, Brazil was one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Between 1901 and 2000, Brazil …'s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita grew at an average annual rate of 4.4 percent. Brazil's long-run growth has rivaled … that of counties such as South Korea, universally praised as a stellar performer. Brazil does not received the same praise …

Although the State of Ceara, in Brazil, is a model of good economic, and fiscal performance given its poverty status …

The importance of macroeconomic stability for growth, and poverty reduction is now accepted in Brazil. As of 1964, the … allow poverty reduction on a sustainable basis. Though much has been achieved, stability, and higher growth in Brazil now …

facts, is that Brazil occupies a position o f very high inequality in the international community. Therefore, this report … tries to explain what makes Brazil so unequal and to what extent the interaction o f labor market forces and public policies … mobility, and for economic and political efficiency. The second section asks why Brazil is so unequal. It seeks a deeper …

its connected poverty trends. The main focus of the authors is understanding, for the case of Brazil, how a trade shock …