One of the major reforms the Cardoso administration is committed to handle is to change Brazilian public administration from a bureaucratic to a managerial system. The emergence, in the nineteenth century, of a bureaucratic public administration replacing patrimonialist structures represented a...

Since the mid-1980s Brazil has experienced a period of great macroeconomic instability. Examining the evolution of the primary balance during these years, one identifies three markedly distinct periods: 1985 to 1989, 1990 to 1994, and 1995-96. The average primary surplus increased from 0. 6...

Efforts to make it easier for firms to register formally are the most common form of business regulatory reform over the past decade. While there is evidence that large reforms have resulted in some increases in registration rates, recent experimental evidence suggests very few informal firms...

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