2014 Brazil Economic Conference - Brazil Outlook Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce Published on Oct 20, 2014 Featured speakers: Mônica Baumgarten de Bolle (moderator), Partner and Managing Director, Galanto MBB Consultoria,…
Lecture at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne (October 12, 2014) China, Brazil - two tales of a growth slowdown
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Brazil president’s surge in polls worries investors Joe Leahy in São Paulo OCTOBER 1, 2014 Brazil’s former president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has been defiant in his backing of…
The Brazilian Economy For Brazil, “the motto must be pragmatism.” - Otaviano Canuto has observed the boom in Latin American exports of commodities from a variety of positions at the…
The world economy faces huge infrastructure financing needs that are not being matched on the supply side. Emerging market economies, in particular, have had to deal with international long-term…
Reuters BONDS NEWS SEPTEMBER 8, 2014 / 3:46 PM / 4 YEARS AGO UPDATE 2-Brazil's Mantega would leave in 2nd term, Rousseff says By Alonso Soto and Luciana Otoni…
Joe Leahy SEPTEMBER 5, 2014 When Brazil’s presidential election circus arrived in Rio Grande do Sul this week, it was hard not to see the difference between the styles of…
This paper studies the growth effects of externalities associated with intergenerational health transmission, health persistence, and access to infrastructure (or lack thereof), which affects women's occupational choices. Following a brief review of the evidence on these issues, a gender-based overlapping generations (OLG) model of endogenous growth that captures these interactions is presented and its properties characterized. The endogeneity of mothers’ rearing time and rearing costs implies that improved access to infrastructure has in general an ambiguous effect on growth. Numerical experiments, based on a calibrated version of the model for low-income countries, show that it is possible for higher investment in infrastructure to actually reduce the steady-state growth rate. The possibility of multiple equilibria induced by an endogenous survival rate is also discussed, and so is the role of public policy in that context.
Capital Finance International, summer 2014 Some analysts have predicted that the commodity price boom has played itself out. However, natural resource-based commodity prices (with the exception of shale gas…
Brazil's Economic Identity: Motivations and Expectations Center for Strategic & International Studies Published on Jul 17, 2014 Featured Remarks by: Otaviano Canuto Senior Advisor on the BRICS Economies Development Economics…
It has become increasingly evident over the last two years that the growth engine of the Brazilian economy has run out of steam. Despite relative resilience during the global…
Valor Econȏmico - 15 maio 2014 Brasil tem vulnerabilidades internas, diz Blanchard Por Sergio Lamucci | De Nova York Para o economista-chefe do FMI, investidores ainda estão preocupados com…
Policy makers in the advanced economies at the core of the global financial crisis can make the claim that they prevented a new “Great Depression”. However, recovery since the outbreak of the crisis more than five years ago has been sluggish and feeble. Since these macroeconomic outcomes have to some extent been shaped by policy mixes adopted in those economies in response to the crisis, the appropriateness of those policy choices is a question worth revisiting. This is particularly the case as one considers the hypothesis that a long-run trend toward stagnation may have already been at play during the pre-crisis period, even if temporarily countervailed by pervasive asset price booms.