This article discusses the prospects of the Brazilian economy within a context of a saving constraint. Given an assumption of full capacity and based on an investment function, the GDP growth is inversely related to the propensity of consumption. Some simulations are presented, showing different...

This paper presents a summarized picture of the Brazilian Social Insurance System, both in terms of the system that cover workers in private sector - Regime Geral de Previdência Social (RGPS) (General Regime for Social Security) - and in terms of the various systems that cover public servants...

The base for proposals of social security policies is being able to measure the combined impact on social security of this policy itself (the endogenous variable) and the exogenous variables: demographic, macroeconomic and labor market. In a pay-as-you-go as system the Brazilian one, besides the...