While pro-cyclical fiscal policies – ie. expansionary fiscal policies in booms and contractionary fiscal stances in downturns – remain a common feature among developing countries, some countries have recently…
O fim da fase de ascensão no super-ciclo de preços de commodities após seu pico em 2011 levou a uma redução nas perspectivas de crescimento econômico na maior parte…
Eleven months ago, as the Argentine national football team marched towards the World Cup Final, the common refrain held that it was a country of 40 million football coaches.…
Labor migration and remittances may bring positive economic effects to developing countries. This is the case particularly in countries like those in Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union members…
Em Washington, Levy reforça aceno do Brasil ao FMI João Fellet - BBC Brasil em Washington 1 junho 2015 Direito de imagemREUTERSImage captionMinistro reuniu-se com representantes do FMI três vezes…
EPOCA NEGOCIOS - 21/05/2015 - POR CRISTIANE BARBIERI Otaviano Canuto, ex-vice-presidente do banco e do BID, lidera banda que se apresenta para famílias de expatriados Se os nomes estivessem…
Valor Economico, 14 de maio de 2015 Por Sergio Lamucci | De Washington O Brasil terá de fazer ajustes importantes em 2015, como a correção dos preços administrados, de…
Capital Finance International, spring 2015 The oil price plunge since last June has been deemed, overall, as a boon for the global economy. However, that depends on where one…
The AIIB will help fill the infrastructure finance gap 9 April 2015Author: Miriam L. Campanella, University of Turin The China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) will serve to ease the…
World Bank - Policy Research Working Paper 7228 As of 2012, Brazil was the country most closed to trade, by measure of trade penetration (combined share of exports and imports…
Os entraves para o desenvolvimento do Brasil, por Otaviano Canuto, do Banco Mundial Fecomercio SP Published on Mar 10, 2015 As razões que fazem o Brasil crescer menos do que…
O avanço brasileiro na redução da pobreza e da desigualdade de renda nas duas últimas décadas tem sido reconhecido. Menos talvez o seja a diminuição relativa da desigualdade de gênero. O…
A queda do preço do petróleo desde junho passado tem sido abordada, em geral, como benéfica para a economia global. No entanto, isso depende de onde se está como…
This paper studies the long-run impact of policies aimed at fostering gender equality on economic growth in Brazil. The first part provides a brief review of gender issues in the country. The second part presents a gender-based, three-period OLG model that accounts for women’s time allocation between market work, child rearing, human capital accumulation, and home production. Bargaining between spouses depends on relative human capital stocks, and thus indirectly on access to infrastructure. The model is calibrated and various experiments are conducted, including investment in infrastructure, a reduction in gender bias in the market place, and a composite pro-growth, pro-gender reform program. The analysis showed that fostering gender equality, which may partly depend on the externalities that infrastructure creates in terms of women’s time allocation and bargaining power, may have a substantial impact on long-run growth in Brazil.
The landscape of international trade negotiations has been undergoing an upheaval. On the multilateral level, after 15 years of unsuccessful attempts to close the Doha Development Round at the…