This paper analyzes export performance in Brazil, discussing the roles played by export diversification, productivity … enhancements, policy, and natural resource endowments. First, we provide a brief account of Brazil’s recent export performance and … share of manufactures in Brazil's export basket, despite the excellent performance of agro-based exports since the early …

Since redemocratization in 1985, Brazil’s system of social protection became more focused on the neediest while at the … policies. Yet, Brazil's social protection model favors cash transfers over social services, and reduces inequalities in the …

impact on the agricultural sector in Brazil. We emphasize four aspects of the reform period that were either unexpected or …

and financing economic growth in Brazil from 1950 to 1980. Special attention in given to the role of external finance and …

implementing economic policies in Brazil. We then use the result of weak exogeneity test to identify a structural vector … appropriate methods points out to high capital mobility for Brazil; b) domestic saving is weakly exogenous in the FH equation; c …