Infrastructure and productivity in Brazil. This article analyses the relationship between infrastructure and total … factor productivity (TFP) in Brazil during the second half of the twenty century. Public capital is used as a proxy for … capital stock- has a positive effect on productivity on the long run. In that sense, it was used the Johansen methodology for …

Brazil behind the average of developing countries. Even if the effects caused by “mondialisation” on weakened economies are …

This paper analyses the most important experiences with school accountability policy (SA) in Brazil. The analysis … appropriately designed. Finally, it discusses the main barriers to the adoption of an efficient SA at the national level in Brazil …

Foreign direct investment and the performance of Brazilian exports. Brazil, in the 1990s, assumed a remarkable position …