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…
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…
Rousseff’s Uphill Battle to Revive Brazil’s Economy: What Brazilians Think of the President’s New Austerity Plan https://youtu.be/s0dDATVeDsw Confronted with a stagnant economy, President Dilma Rousseff has shifted gears and embarked on…
Brazil’s is an unusually closed economy as measured by trade penetration, with exports plus imports equal to just 27.6 per cent of GDP in 2013. As the potential productivity gains from participation in global production networks increase, so does the opportunity cost of Brazil’s failure to open its economy.
The curious case of Brazil’s closedness to trade - VoxEU While Brazil has become one of the largest economies in the world, it remains among the most closed economies as…
https://youtu.be/nRLQykOUcKA Facing the consequences of a stagnant economy, a corruption scandal likely to disrupt major public investments in infrastructure in coming years, and markets' deep skepticism about her ability…
International trade has undergone a radical transformation in the past decades as production processes have fragmented along cross-border value chains. The Brazilian economy has remained on the fringes of this production revolution, maintaining a very high density of local supply chains. This article calls attention to the rising opportunity costs incurred by such option taken by the country.
BRICLab Conference: Are BRICS a New Platform for Global Economic Governance Columbia SIPA Published on Nov 14, 2014 November 14, 2014 Low Library Panelists will weigh in on the prospects…
Brazil’s macroeconomic management will face four major immediate challenges in the near future. The response to them will be strengthened if we could have some indication of how to…
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
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…
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…