productivity growth. Despite the low potential GDP initial growth, the degree of idleness would allow an average GDP growth of … country manages to face the challenges of fi scal consolidation and the implementation of reforms that improve productivity …

Infrastructure and productivity in Brazil. This article analyses the relationship between infrastructure and total … factor productivity (TFP) in Brazil during the second half of the twenty century. Public capital is used as a proxy for … capital stock- has a positive effect on productivity on the long run. In that sense, it was used the Johansen methodology for …