Financial Sector Assessment Program in Brazil. The report assesses the status of implementation of 2005 ROSC A&A policy … recommendations, highlights recent improvements in Brazil's corporate financial reporting framework, and sheds light on emerging … with international good practices. In addition to maintaining appropriate macroeconomic policies, there is an extensive …

inequality faced by most countries. The question studied in this paper is: How do international policies on aid, trade, and … factor movements affect the international distribution of income? To begin to answer this question, the authors calculate the … terms of changes in standard inequality measures, it is of some importance for the lowest decile of the world's income …

national government commitments, particularly in relation to planning, pricing, and settlement rules. Bilateral trading …

of density, distance, and division to tailor policy instruments to address integration challenges ranging from the …This study from the World Bank calls for a rebalancing of policy discussions and shows how to use the three dimensions …

"Consumption baskets vary across households and inflation rates vary across goods. As a result, standard consumer price …, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru). They find that in these countries standard CPI inflation typically reflects the inflation rate … explore empirically these issues using household data covering nine episodes from four Latin American countries (Brazil …

Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. Costs include investment banking and legal fees, regulatory and exchange listing costs, rating … Chile from a transaction cost perspective, over the past decade most firms have used bonds rather than shares to raise … markets. This paper 'a product of the Financial Sector Operations and Policy Department' is part of a larger effort in the …