"Uses reports from World Bank analysts and Brazilian consultants to review environmental impact of World Bank-financed projects in Brazilian cities of São Francisco, Carajás, Polonoroeste, and Procop. Concludes with section on lessons learned from past experiences and recommendations regarding...

Determinative common factors of currency and financial crisis. This paper identifies and evaluates determinative common factors of currency and financial crisis in relation to 86 crises episodes between 1970-2004, based on factor analysis, cluster and discriminant analysis. One evidenced that...

The aim of this article is to estimate a Bayesian factorial dynamic model for the analysis and forecasting of the Brazilian tax burden (BTB) using monthly data from 1996 to 2007. Twenty taxes are responsible for about 80% of the BTB, each of which with a distinct seasonal pattern The factorial...