Co-operation and Development/World Trade Organization's Trade in Value Added Database to assess Brazil's current … for Brazil to increase global value chain?related trade. One avenue to raise participation in global value chains is … through (deeper) preferential trade agreements, and to this end the paper characterizes the level of integration of Brazil …

herald cities with their industrial bases as "engines of growth," does industrialization in fact drive urbanization? While … industrialization correlate only weakly with changes in urbanization. This suggests that policy and institutional factors may also … influence the urbanization process. In fact, the relationship between industrialization and urbanization is absent in Sub …

equilibrium model, this study analyzes the economy-wide costs of achieving a 10 percent share of wind power in Brazil …?s electricity supply mix by 2030. Brazil is in the midst of an active program of wind capacity expansion. The welfare loss would be … that, in the case of Brazil, production subsidies financed through increased value-added tax would have superior impacts on …

development quest. The sample includes Brazil, India, Vietnam and four African countries -- Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia … industrialization only played a significant role in Vietnam …

the other for Brazil. These analyses show the distributional impact of the recent growth experienced by Brazil and the …

This paper studies the long-run impact of policies aimed at fostering gender equality on economic growth in Brazil. The … terms of women's time allocation and bargaining power, may have a substantial impact on long-run growth in Brazil …

This note examines in detail Brazil?s export performance over the past 15 years, focusing not only on growth and …

This paper analyzes the macroeconomic implications of population aging in Brazil. Three alternative yet complementary …, saving rates could increase and not necessarily fall as a consequence of aging in Brazil -- thus contradicting conventional … conclusion, Brazil will not necessarily experience a fall in saving and growth, but if government policies are appropriately …