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Brazil's growth performance: Achievements and prospects
de Mello, Luiz - 2009
This paper reviews Brazil's growth performance over the last quarter of a century and discusses the main determinants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273416
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Structural change, technology and economic growth: Brazil and the CIBS in a comparative perspective
Cimoli, Mario; Pereira, Wellington; Porcile, Gabriel; … - 2008
grows at higher rates. The paper compares Brazil and the CIBS from the point of view of the direction and intensity of … structural change. It is suggested that structural change has been relatively weak in Brazil and that this is associated with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273506
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The Contribution of Foreign Borrowing to the New Zealand Economy
Makin, Anthony; Zhang, Wei; Scobie, Grant - 2008
New Zealand's unrelenting current account deficits, its trade performance and high external debt level remain central to ongoing economic policy debates. However, what has been overlooked in the discussion of New Zealand's economic relations with its trading partners is the positive contribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115608
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Convergence in GDP per Capita in the Euro Area and the EU at the Time of COVID-19
Licchetta, Mirko; Mattozzi, Giovanni - In: Intereconomics 58 (2023) 1, pp. 43-51
This paper investigates determinants of convergence in GDP per capita in the euro area and the EU between 1995 and 2021. It finds that the COVID-19 crisis temporarily slowed convergence but the estimated negative impact is significantly smaller than during the global financial crisis. Diverging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014334683
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As causas imediatas do crescimento da renda, da redução da desigualdade e da queda da extrema pobreza na Bahia, no Nordeste e no Brasil entre 2003 e 2011
de Souza, Pedro H. G. F. - 2013
poverty reduction in five different geographic regions - Brazil, the Northeastern region, the state of Bahia, the metropolitan … the Programa Bolsa Família. Thus, both growth and redistribution contributed decisively to poverty reduction in Brazil and …-term prospects for pro-poor growth and poverty reduction in Brazil will hinge on a more equitable labor market in the Northeastern …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330438
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Aumento do acesso à Internet em banda larga no Brasil e sua possível relação com o crescimento econômico: Uma análise de dados em painel
Macedo, Hildebrando Rodrigues; de Carvalho, Alexandre … - 2010
access density in Brazil and the GDP and GDP per capita growth. Broadband access densities, GDP, GDP per capita and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330478
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Dívida pública e passivo externo: Onde está a ameaça?
Gentil, Denise Lobato; Araúja, Victor Leonardo de - 2012
This work aims to analyze if the trajectory and composition of net and gross, public debt and external liabilities can hinder the growth of Brazilian GDP. The work concludes that fiscal indicators are more comfortable that external indicators. The net public debt is falling and less linked to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330718
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Aumento da penetração do serviço de acesso à Internet em banda larga e seu possível impacto econômico: Análise através de sistema de equações simultâneas de oferta e demanda...
Macedo, Hildebrando Rodrigues; de Carvalho, Alexandre … - 2010
impact on the GDP and GDP per capita, resulted of the increase in the broadband internet access diffusion in Brazil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330950
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Couple's behaviour in the Brazilian labour market: The influence of social security and individual characteristics on married individuals' labour supply decisions
Queiroz, Bernardo Lanza; de Souza, Laetícia Rodrigues - 2013
In recent years, a large number of studies have investigated the relationship between social security benefits and male retirement decisions in developed countries. However, women's and couples' labour supply decisions and the patterns of withdrawal from the labour force in emerging economies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293260
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Integrating local ecological services into intergovernmental fiscal transfers: the case of the ICMS-E in Brazil
Ring, Irene - 2004
-E that has first been intro-duced by a few states in Brazil during the 1990s. Part of the revenue of this value-added tax is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304527