/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 …

The objective of this report is to design an integrated strategy for rural poverty reduction in Brazil. It contains an … updated and detailed profile of the rural poor in the northeast and southeast regions of Brazil; identifies key determinants …

rural poverty reduction in Brazil, The report contains an updated and more detailed profile of the rural poor in the … northeast (NE) and southeast (SE) of Brazil; identifies key determinants of rural poverty in these regions; and proposes a five …-pronged strategic framework in which to couch a set of integrated policies that could effectively help to reduce rural poverty in Brazil …

"This study measures the impact of investment climate factors on total factor productivity (TFP) of firms in Brazil and … China. The analysis is conducted in two steps: first an econometric production function is estimated to produce a measure of … time by one day in China could increase TFP by 2-6 percent. Indicators such as email usage have positive effects on TFP. In …

Brazilian and Chinese manufacturing plants. They find that while in Brazil increased levels of international integration are … associated with an increased demand for skilled labor, the opposite is true in China. This paper 'a product of the Growth and …