Brazilian exports: climbing down a competitiveness cliff by Otaviano Canuto, Matheus Cavallari and José Guilherme Reis published by SSRN (01/2013). “This note examines in detail Brazil’s export performance over the past 15 years, focusing not only growth and composition,…
Enabling trade: valuing growth opportunities, released at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The study, a collaborative effort between Bain & Co., the World Bank and the World Economic Forum (01/2013). “This report examines supply chain barriers to international…
Open Budget Survey 2012 by International Budget Partnership. “Budget transparency can help combat corruption, waste and bad governance and help citizens truly have a stake in their future…The Survey indicates that while progress on budget transparency is being made…
Latin American commodity export concentration: is there a China effect? by K.C. Fung, Alicia Garcia-Herrero and Mario Nigrinis Ospina (1/2013). “Given that commodity export concentration is likely to be unhelpful for economic development, we then ask the question of…
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Government Finance Statistics (Seiferling)
jan 16, 2013, 11:55 AM 0
Recent improvements to the government finance statistics yearbook database in response to analytical needs by Mike Seiferling published by IMF (01/2013) indicated by Renato Villela. “The demand for high quality detailed public finance statistics covering a globally representative sample…
Okun’s law: Fit at 50? by Laurence Ball, Daniel Leigh and Prakash Loungani published by IMF (01/2013) indicated by Alvaro Manoel. “This paper asks how well Okun’s Law fits short-run unemployment movements in the United States since 1948 and…
La inversión en la economía brasileña por Paulo Levy publicado en E Pais indicado por Alberto D. Barreix (01/2013). “…en el caso de la economía brasileña se abrió la opportunidad para el debate sobre la política económica del gobierno….
A modern history of fiscal prudence and profligacy by Paolo Mauro, Rafael Romeu, Ariel Binder, Asad Zaman published by IMF, indicated by Alvaro Manoel (01/12). “We find that when a country has a public debt stock above an estimated…
Brazil: The Brazilian way to comply with the fiscal goal of the year by Walter Stuber indicated by Luiz Villela (01/2013). The local newspapers reported an interesting engineering financing transaction structured by the Brazilian Government aiming to increase revenues…
Is fiscal policy the answer? A developing country perspective by Blanca Moreno-Dodson published by World Bank. “The authors present an analysis of some of the trade offs and policy choices that developing countries face, in light of the recent…