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Big BRICS, Weak Foundations : The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China
Chaudhary, Latika - 2014
developing economies circa 1910: Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC). These four countries encompassed more than 50 percent of …
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The Industrialization of South America Revisited : Evidence from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia, 1890-2010
della Paolera, Gerardo - 2018
We use new manufacturing GDP time series to examine the industrialization in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia …
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Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States : Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930
Martinez, Andre - 2010
In the last few years there has been an explosion in the number of papers that aim to explain what determines country risk (defined as the difference between the yield of a sovereign's bonds and the risk free rate). In this paper, we contribute to the discussion using by showing that Brazilian...
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The Brazilian Bombshell? The Long-Term Impact of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic the South American Way
Guimbeau, Amanda - 2020
productivity markers in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil's financial center and the most populous city in South America today …
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Colonial Institutions, Commodity Booms, and the Diffusion of Elementary Education in Brazil, 1889-1930
Musacchio, Aldo - 2014
We explain how the decentralization of fiscal responsibility among Brazilian states between 1889 and 1930 promoted a unequal expansion in public schooling. We document how the variation in state export tax revenues, product of commodity booms, explains increases in expenditures on education,...
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Three Papers on Brazilian Trade and Payments
Cardoso, Eliana; Dornbusch, Rudiger - 2021
prices in Brazil and abroad, export prices relative to home prices and export prices relative to prices in world trade. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222081
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Determinants of City Growth in Brazil
Da Mata, Daniel; Deichmann, Uwe; Henderson, J. Vernon; … - 2021
In this paper, we examine the determinants of Brazilian city growth between 1970 and 2000. We consider a model of a city, which combines aspects of standard urban economics and the new economic geography literatures. For the empirical analysis, we constructed a dataset of 123 Brazilian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245126
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Moderate Inflation
Dornbusch, Rudiger; Fischer, Stanley - 2021
Inflation persists at moderate rates of 15-30 percent in all the countries that successfully reduced triple digit inflations in the 1980s. Several other countries, for example Colombia, have experienced moderate inflation for prolonged periods. In this paper we first set out theories of...
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Exclusionary Policies in Urban Development, How Under-Servicing of Migrant Households Affects the Growth and Composition of Brazilian Cities
Feler, Leo - 2014
Localities in developed countries often restrict construction and population growth through regulations governing land usage, lot sizes, building heights, and frontage requirements. In developing countries, such policies are less effective because of the existence of unregulated, informal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751446
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Inflation Stabilization with Incomes Policy Support : a Review of the Experience in Argentina, Brazil and Israel
Dornbusch, Rudiger; Simonsen, Mario Henrique - 2021
In 1985-86 Argentina, Brazil and Israel initiated programs of stabilization after episodes of high and sharply … programs in Argentina and Israel have now been in force for over a year and the more recent one in Brazil for half a year …, inertial inflation and the basics of monetary reform. We also review the actual stabilization experience in Argentina, Brazil …
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