efficiency, and hindering domestic integration and export performance. This paper assesses the state of Brazil's infrastructure …, in light of past investment trends and various quality and quantity indicators. Brazil's infrastructure stock and its …

While Brazil's deep recession has been broad based, it has been marked by a particularlylarge fall in investment. Real … factors contributed tothe investment decline, including a deterioration in Brazil's medium-term growthprospects, rising real …

eligibility rule of the Bolsa Familia program in Brazil, one of the oldest and largest conditional cash transfers in the world, to …

Capital market development in Brazil is a key policy issue going forward to foster savings, investment and absorptive … capacity in a context of prospects for sizable capital flows in the medium term. During the last decade, Brazil has achieved … infrastructure has been reformed and strengthened, and a diversified investor base has been built. Nonetheless, Brazil's capital …

This paper highlights that real interest rates in Brazil have declined substantially over time, but are still well … Brazil sustain significantly lower real interest rates than in the past. Going forward, the paper shows that Brazil can … savings. Still, econometric results suggest that, controlling for everything else in the model, real interest rates in Brazil …

This paper assesses Brazil's growth performance from a long-term perspective, using crosscountry and panel estimation … macroeconomic stability and several reforms have helped raise per capita growth in Brazil since the mid-1990s. The results also show …

This paper uses Engel curves to estimate real income growth in Brazil. The estimated per capita household real income … that post-reform real income growth in Brazil was low …

In recent decades, population has been aging fast in Brazil while old age pensions and health related spending have …