/provinces in China and India. The United States, where regional inequality is the least, shows further convergence. Brazil, with …"The paper studies regional (spatial) inequality in the five most populous countries in the world: China, India, the … United States, Indonesia, and Brazil in the period 1980-2000. They are all federations or quasi-federations composed of …

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

Understanding the industry structure of banking services in Brazil is an important task both for the financial …

explore empirically these issues using household data covering nine episodes from four Latin American countries (Brazil …, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru). They find that in these countries standard CPI inflation typically reflects the inflation rate …

Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. Costs include investment banking and legal fees, regulatory and exchange listing costs, rating …