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Concentration and inequality across Brazilian regions
Azzoni, Carlos Roberto - In: Regional problems and policies in Latin America, (pp. 225-241). 2013
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Educational quality and regional disparity : one application of hierarchical model to Brazilian dataset
Menezes, Tatiane; Soares, Sammara Cavalcanti - 2011
The quality of the educational system is crucial to the most diverse socioeconomic and cultural aspects of a country. The objective of this paper is highlighting the importance of quality of education to explain the wide income disparities between Brazilian people. In face of such evidence, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527229
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Measuring the contribution of social policies to regional inequality dynamic in Brazil
Silveira Neto, Raul da Mota; Azzoni, Carlos Roberto - 2011
We decompose the recent changes in regional inequality in Brazil into its components, highlighting the role of … indicate that the largest part of the recent reduction in regional inequality in Brazil is related to the dynamics in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543249
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Economic growth and infrastructure in Brazil : a spatial multilevel approach
Almeida, Eduardo Simões de; Guimarães, Pablo Miranda - 2014
alternatives for doing an analysis of income convergence for Brazil. One alternative would be to do the income convergence analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011503515
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Cost of living and wages in the Brazilian metropolitans regions
Almeida, Alexandre Nunes de; Spolador, Humberto … - 2014 - (Preliminary draft)
This paper analyses the relationship between household cost of living and wages in the Brazilian metropolitan regions. The country's economic growth in the last decade contributed significantly to structural economic changes at the regional level, in terms of employment, population growth and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011504384
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The impact of Brazilian regional development funds on regional economic growth : a spatial panel approach : 54th ERSA Congress, 26-29 August 2014 - Saint Petersburg, Russia
Cravo, Túlio; Resende, Guilherme Mendes; Carvalho, … - 2014
In Brazil, the regional development policy is directed by the regional development funds for the Northeast (FNE), the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011504386
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An exam of the spatial patterns of innovation in Brazilian industry : an empirical analysis : paper presented at ERSA 2012 52nd European Congress of the Regional Science Associatio...
Araujo, Veneziano de Castro; Garcia, Renato - 2012
The aim of this paper is to exam the spatial patterns of innovative performance in Brazilian industry, taking into account its regional interdependencies, and the impact of the main innovative inputs. There is a huge literature concerning regional innovation and the importance of local inputs in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508713
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Balancing investments in public service personnel and its healthcare provision output : an efficiency analysis for Brazilian municipalities
Furtado, Bernardo Alves - 2013
Brazil has constitutionally adopted a Unified Health System (SUS) since 1988. SUS is designed so that central … central government. In general, the analysis demonstrates that public provision of services in Brazil is highly heterogeneous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515673
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Tourists expenditure multipliers : what difference do financing sources play?
Haddad, Eduardo Amaral; Porsse, Alexandre Alves; … - 2011
domestic destinations in Brazil, in terms of expenditure level and composition. We also look at different alternative of … domestic tourism in Brazil to consolidate an interstate matrix of expenditures by tourists. We then use an interregional input …-output system for Brazil to compute the tourism multipliers based on alternative hypotheses for the sources of financing of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540810
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Banks and regional development : an empirical analysis on the determinants of credit availability in Brazilian regions
Crocco, Marco; Silva, Fernanda Faria; Rezende, Luiz … - In: Regional studies 48 (2014) 5, pp. 883-895
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428207