, Brazil. Infrastructure and social investments have been made in the community through a government program, with community … of its implementation and positive impact on living conditions, and will provide the basis for a major state-wide program …

be if the state were to invest more. The hope is that the methodology can be used in Brazil as it has been used in the …This study constructs three indices to measure how well Brazil's young people are surviving their transition to … available data to construct three indices for each Brazilian state based on 36 indicators encompassing the health, behavior …

economies in the water industry in four countries (Brazil, Colombia, Moldova, and Vietnam) that differ substantially in economic … Brazil the authors cannot reject the null hypothesis of constant returns to scale. They also find evidence of economies of …

wage distribution in Brazil during the 1988-95 trade liberalization. Unlike in other Latin American countries, trade …

The authors describe the main trends of Brazil's fiscal policy during the past decade and analyze (1) the ability to … Brazil. But the relationship is nonlinear: the impact of the primary balance on spreads is amplified as the debt ratio … disappointing growth performance in Brazil during the past decade …

Measured by the Gini coefficient, income inequality in Brazil rose from 0.57 in 1981 to 0.63 in 1989, before falling … back to 0.56 in 2004. This latest figure would lower Brazil's world inequality rank from 2nd (in 1989) to 10th (in 2004 … the determinants of Brazil's distributional reversal over this period. The rise in inequality in the 1980s appears to have …

connected poverty trends. The main focus of the authors is understanding, for the case of Brazil, how a trade shock interacts …