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The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic arrived in Brazil while the poorest forty percent of the population was still …, Brazil's 2014-2016 crisis and recovery are a stark departure from the previous decade as Brazil's inclusive growth turned … significantly regressive. As millions of jobs were lost, Brazil's expansive social protection system was unable to effectively serve …
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development quest. The sample includes Brazil, India, Vietnam and four African countries-Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia …
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Bridging the Atlantic is a descriptive study of Brazil's involvement with counterparts in Sub-Saharan Africa through … to forge concrete and mutually beneficial partnerships between Brazil and Sub-Saharan Africa. Brazil and Sub … century, Africa has become one of the major fronts of Brazil's international agenda. Africa is rapidly changing and Brazil has …
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This paper discusses and illustrates the analytical foundations of international comparisons (or benchmarking) for assessing a country's potential for improvement along various dimensions of social and economic development. By providing a methodology for international benchmarking, discussing...
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There is a growing body of literature exploring the skill content of jobs. This paper contributes to this research by using data on the task content of occupations in developing countries, instead of U.S. data, as most existing studies do. The paper finds that indexes based on U.S. data do not...
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link between access to digital technologies and the demand for skills in the largest Latin American country, Brazil …
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from an original survey of 700 firms from four emerging (or newly-emerged) economies: Brazil, India, the Republic of Korea …
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the law that increased the minimum employment age from 14 to 16 in Brazil in 1998, and uncovers its impact on time …
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This study conducted a randomized evaluation of a program in the Brazilian state of Ceara. The program was designed to improve teachers' effectiveness by increasing their professional interaction and sharing of classroom practice. In 175 of 350 secondary schools, teachers were provided with...
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in Brazil that explicitly takes input from firms in determining the location, scale, and skill content of courses offered …
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