employing the smooth transition framework and annual time series data for Brazil from 1890 to 2003, we attempt to address on the …

Unfulfilled expectations about economic growth in Brazil has led many observers to question the ability of the new … institutional environment. It also claims that Brazil could have enjoyed more gains from trade, had it pursued a more aggressive …

recent reforms in Brazil, a country which followed a gradualist approach and was a late-starter among Latin American …

Intro -- Contents -- Editor and Contributors -- 1. External Liberalization in Asia, Post-Socialist Europe, and Brazil …