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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Brazilian Economy"”.
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Wages, growth and cycles in the Brazilian economy
Brazilian economic development is marked by the reproduction of a very unequal income distribution profile. This has been justified by theories which prescribe the optimal allocation of resources and full employment of factors of production. Supposedly, a higher rate of economic growth is reached …
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Regional Inequality and Structural Changes in the Brazilian Economy
… that the interplay of market forces in the Brazilian economy favors the more developed region of the country. In other words, the trickling-down effects generated by market forces are still very unlikely to overtake the polarization effects from the Center-South. If regional equity is part …
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Public capital, infrastructure and productivity in the Brazilian economy
This dissertation tries to test, from the empirical evidence from Brazil, the validity or not of the inclusion of two new variables in the traditional neoclassical growth model: Public capital and infrastructure capital. We check for the stationarity of the data and run two models: One with public …
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The Roots of State Intervention in The Contemporary Brazilian Economy
… the character of state intervention in the Brazilian economy, i.e. it attempts to explain why the state has implemented certain policies instead of others. In order to follow the process through which the roots of state intervention in the Brazilian economy have developed, the study reviews …
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Monetary regimes and macroeconomic policy: An empirical analysis of the Brazilian economy
… of the monetary regime followed by the Brazilian authorities during the 80's and beginning of the 90's, and its consequences for the credibility of anti-inflationary policies, the solvency condition of the government, and the power of restrictive monetary policies.
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External shocks, public sector disequilibrium and crowding-out in the Brazilian economy, 1970-1987
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The opening of the Brazilian economy and the state of its firms and industries
… reforms towards a greater opening of the economy, its deregulation and the privatization of state enterprises, started to be implemented.
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An Intersectoral Model of Planning for the Brazilian Economy: An Application of Optimal Control Theory (input-Output, Brazil)
… in this study is the one of determining, for the Brazilian economy, the strategy that maximizes total employment given a restriction in the Balance of Payments.
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Public and private investment in Brazil: Empirical evidence about complementarity
… sector has always been an important agent in the Brazilian economy. However, historical observation and empirical evidence indicate that the state has lost some of its dynamic properties in the last decade. Overall, our results corroborate the long-run complementarity hypothesis for the Brazilian …
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Essays in Dynamic Economies
… model that mimics some characteristics of the Brazilian economy. The key findings show that heterogeneity leads to a stronger welfare cost of inflation in terms of aggregate per capita output. Moreover, if the inflation tax is replaced in a revenue neutral way by other alternative distortional …
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Non-Traditional Agriculture and Economic Development: The Brazilian Soybean Expansion, 1964 - 1982
… of the expansion of the Soybean crop on the Brazilian economy between 1964 and 1982. In particular the study seeks to identify the implications for Brazilian economic development of the support for the rapid growth of a non-traditional agricultural crop such as soybeans, and to link the …
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The Impact of Fiscal Incentives on The Brazilian Northeast
… resources to other regions or sectors of the Brazilian economy, resulting in a system of tax exemptions and subsidies which compete for the attentions of taxpayers and investors. Although several of the individual incentive programs have been examined in earlier research, no study has …
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Inflation in Brazil: 1974-1980
The Brazilian economy has been characterized since the first-oil shock in 1973 by severe inflation accompanied by declining rates of economic growth and persistent disequilibrium in the balance of payments. Thus, annual inflation rates skyrocketed from 15% in 1973 to 120% in 1980, measured by the …
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Uma breve discussão sobre Celso Furtado: entre o pensamento e a ação
… , and public office , and its importance to the Brazilian economy and especially the economy of the northeast. It can be stated that Celso Furtado stood Brazil in the world context, analyzing its political society and offering solutions to the major problems faced, and provide economic …
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Monetary policy and seigniorage in Brazil: Open access and the role of state banks
A political economy model of competition for seigniorage is developed in this thesis in order to provide a rationale for the inflationary regime that the Brazilian economy went through until the advent of the Real Plan in July 1994. If states in a federation can transfer their debts to the central …
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Avanços e atrasos na configuração socioeconômica do Estado da Paraíba a partir do processo de reestruturação produtiva (1990 à 2013)
… deployed. The low rates of growth of the Brazilian economy from 1990s, ended up hurting the dynamism of economic and reflected in the reduction of employment sectors, generating a large mass of unemployed and informal workers. In the Paraíba the importance of the economic sectors has been …
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Three essays on inequality
… includes a counterfactual exercise using Brazilian labor friction parameters. The results show that both of the labor protection policies considered have a significant impact on inequality. Finally, the last essay studies the quantitative implications of different education systems and the …
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Essays on fiscal policy and income inequality
… on income inequality and economic growth among Brazilian states using a set of panel data models. The analysis covers the ye- ars from 1996 to 2011, comprising 16 years for 26 of the 27 Brazilian states. We estimated an individual equation to explain economic growth and two individual equations …
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Indebtedness during the military government: a study of the 1960s and 1970s in Brazil
… incentive laws created by the military left the Brazilian internal market access to credit subject to changes in the international scenario.