details of the various phases of development and the role thatgovernment and government monopoly has played in different …

-faring and airborne transportation technologies, to examine its impact on the course of economic development across the globe … effect on the process of development and contributed to the contemporary variation in the standard of living across countries. …

the case of Brazil. The IT monetary policy regime has been adopted by a significant number of countries. While the focus … of this paper is on Brazil, which began inflation targeting in 1999, we also examine the experience of other countries … compare the experience of Brazil with that of non-IT countries, and ask the question of whether adopting IT makes a difference …

matching comparison methodology developed by Ñopo (2008). In Brazil, racial wage gaps are more pronounced than those found …

This paper studies the link between television and divorce in Brazil by exploiting variation in the timing of …

This paper argues that the pass-through in Brazil has fallen compared with estimates in other studies on earlier time …

general pattern of productivity growth and industrial development. This paper surveys the literature on services trade …

a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were … characterized the agricultural stage of development. The lack of cultural diffusion and its manifestation in cultural rigidity … the advent of divergence and overtaking in the process of long-run development, attributing the dominance of some …