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"Meeting the Millennium Development Goals in Brazil: Can Microeconomic Simulations Help?"
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Leite, Phillippe G. - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2003)
The authors investigate whether micro-simulation techniques can shed light on the types of policies that should be adopted by countries wishing to meet their Millennium Development Goals. They compare two families of micro-simulations. The first family of micro-simulations decomposes required...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021335
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Rising food prices and household welfare: Evidence from Brazil in 2008
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Fruttero, Anna; Leite, Phillippe - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
Food price inflation in Brazil in the twelve months to June 2008 was 18 percent, while overall inflation was 5 … estimate the welfare consequences of these food price increases, and their distribution across households. Because Brazil is a … afforded by increases in two large social assistance benefits, the overall impact of higher food prices in Brazil was U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643263
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Education or inflation? The roles of structural factors and macroeconomic instability in explaining Brazilian inequality in the 1980s
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Litchfield, Julie A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998
This paper investigates possible explanations for the increases in inequality observed in Brazil during the 1980s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928756
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Ageing Poorly? Accounting for the Decline in Earnings Inequality in Brazil, 1995-2012
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Firpo, Sergio; Messina, Julián - 2017
The Gini coefficient of labor earnings in Brazil fell by nearly a fifth between 1995 and 2012, from 0.50 to 0.41. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653384
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Rising food prices and household welfare: Evidence from Brazil in 2008
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Fruttero, Anna; Leite, Phillippe - 2011
Food price inflation in Brazil in the twelve months to June 2008 was 18 percent, while overall inflation was 5 … estimate the welfare consequences of these food price increases, and their distribution across households. Because Brazil is a … afforded by increases in two large social assistance benefits, the overall impact of higher food prices in Brazil was U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278528
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Trade liberalization, employment flows and wage inequality in Brazil
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Leite, Phillippe G.; … - 2007
the wage distribution in Brazil during the 1988-95 trade liberalization. Unlike in other Latin American countries, trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284603
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Education or inflation? : The role of structural factors and macro-economic instability in explaining Brazilian inequality in the 1980s
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Litchfield, Julie A. - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000168510
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Structural adjustment, income distribution and the role of government : theory, and evidence from Brazil
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000973105
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Income distribution in Brazil 1981 - 1990 : parametric and non-parametric approaches
Cowell, Frank A.; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; … - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000670425
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Growing apart : inequality and poverty trends in Brazil in the 1980s
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Litchfield, Julie A. - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000670427