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Rio de Janeiro - Os trabalhadores dos portos do Rio integram a paralisação nacional de seis horas, que começou às 7 h de hoje (24). Os portuários reivindicam melhorias no plano de carreira (Tânia Rêgo/Agência Brasil)

Fechamento comercial prejudica a economia brasileira, diz Otaviano Canuto

  A economia brasileira é comercialmente fechada. Considere, por exemplo, as tarifas sobre importações. Ponderando-se pelos pesos dos itens na pauta de importações, a média era de 8,3% em 2015, a mais…

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Globalization and inequalities: what we have learned from international experience

CEBRAP - Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento São Paulo Advanced School of Social Sciences - Session #01 [March 23th, 2018] Lecture: "Globalization and inequalities: what we have learned from international experience", by Otaviano Canuto [The World Bank].

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Latin America can secure 2018 recovery

The slowdown in Latin America since 2012 has been accompanied by weak and slightly decelerating potential growth, reflecting sluggish productivity, scarcity of fixed investments and demographic changes. Positive global economic prospects for 2018, the regional cyclical recovery, and policy initiatives to lift productivity are presenting Latin America's leaders with the opportunity to alter that trajectory.

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