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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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connected poverty trends. The main focus of the authors is understanding, for the case of Brazil, how a trade shock interacts …
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violence. The phenomenon is observed in many countries, including in Brazil, despite its robust legal framework to prevent and …
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analysis based on Brazil's historical data over the period 1970-2006 confirm that the manufacturing sector benefits the most in …
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household labor income and poverty in Brazil. The authors first estimate the extent of price transmission from world markets to …
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The seven largest emerging market economies -- China, India, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Indonesia, and Turkey …
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This paper examines the full-time school program in Rio de Janeiro's municipal schools. The program, called as the "Single-Shift" schools (Turno Unico), extends the time students spend in municipal schools and seeks to improve the quality of education provision by creating a diverse curriculum...
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This paper is a study of the effect of Brazil's staggered Internet rollout between 2000 and 2014 on municipality … employment and wages. The study uses a new, annual data set on Internet availability from the Brazil school census, with the … Internet connections. These data are combined with Brazil's rich, matched employer-employee survey, which contains annual …
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The Gini coefficient of labor earnings in Brazil fell by nearly a fifth between 1995 and 2012, from 0.50 to 0.41. The …
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of 700 firms from four emerging (or newly-emerged) economies: Brazil, India, the Republic of Korea, and South Africa. The …
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