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The Impact of the 2007.08 Food Price Crisis in a Major Commodity Exporter: Food Prices, Inflation, and Inclusion in Brazil

Mueller, Bernardo; Mueller, Charles - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

Brazil in the past 2 …

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Industrial Policies in Latin America

Peres, Wilson - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

This chapter analyses the main features of industrial policies carried out in Latin America since 1990. It studies these policies during import substitution industrialization and how they changed after the market-oriented economic reforms. It presents the main national strategies, policy lines...

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Africa-Brazil co-operation in social protection: Drivers, lessons and shifts in the engagement of the Brazilian Ministry of Social Development

Leite, Iara Costa; Suyama, Bianca; Pomeroy, Melissa - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

The Brazilian Ministry of Social Development.s co-operation with sub-Saharan Africa has shifted from an initial engagement in cash transfers to a recent engagement in food and nutritional security. This paper aims at understanding the main drivers for suc

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Parsing the Urban Poverty Puzzle A Multi-generational Panel Study in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas, 1968–2008

Perlman, Janice E. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

Janeiro from 1968 to 2008. Major political transformations took place in Brazil during this interval: from dictatorship to …

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The Case for an Intermediate Exchange Rate Regime with Endogenizing Market Structures and Capital Mobility

Kaltenbrunner, Annina; Nissanke, Machiko - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009

; and to examine empirically the experiences and evolution of Brazil.s foreign exchange market under different exchange rate …

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Globalization and Formal Sector Migration in Brazil

Aguayo-Tellez, Ernesto; Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Poole, … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008

migration for Brazil. We estimate the worker?s multichoice migration problem and document that previously unobserved employer …

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What Lessons have been learnt since the East Asian Crisis in 1997/98? CIBS, Capital Flows, and Exchange Rates

Pircher, Marion - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008

, India, Brazil, and South Africa (CIBS). Furthermore, we compare the level of financial stability, and the composition and …

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Developing and Harnessing Software Technology in the South: The Roles of China, India, Brazil, and South Africa

Ojo, Adegboyega; Janowski, Tomasz; Basanya, Rilwan; … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008

Philippines, Brazil, China, and Indonesia have emerged as important global players in the offshore software services industry … state of software technology in the south and specifically, the maturity of the software industries in China, India, Brazil …

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Interdependencies between Monetary Policy and Foreign Exchange Intervention under Inflation Targeting: The Case of Brazil and the Czech Republic

Gnabo, Jean-Yves; de Mello, Luiz; Moccero, Diego - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008

. This paper uses a friction model to estimate intervention reaction functions and the associated marginal effects for Brazil … main findings are that: (i) in both countries interventions occur predominantly to reduce exchange rate volatility, while … in Brazil the central bank also reacts to exchange rate deviations from medium-term trends; (ii) there are strong …

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Globalization and the Urban Poor

Perlman, Janice E. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007

. Using Brazil as an example the paper draws comparisons between the lives of the poor during the isolationist period of …

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