Video “Urbanisation and development: Achievements, challenges and options” jointly organised by Centre for Liveable Cities and World Bank in Singapore. “Mr. Jos Verbeek, lead author of the Global Monitoring Report 2013: Rural-Urban Dynamics and the Millennium Development Goals, shared…
Bancos públicos de desarrollo – Hacia un nuevo paradigma? por Fernando de Olloqui (editor) publicado por BID. “La diferencia entre ‘teoria’ y ‘práctica’ es que en teoría no hay diferencia entre teoria y práctica, pero en la práctica, sí…
Política fiscal del Brasil: fundamentos, implementación y consolidación de un nuevo régimen por Martus Tavares (8/2004). “…Se argumenta que la madurez de la sociedad brasileira, demostrada desde comienzos de la década pasada, fue de fundamental importancia para los avances…
Os BRICS na OMC – Políticas comerciais comparadas de Brasil, Rússia, Índia, China e África do Sul livro organizado por Vera Thorstensen e Ivan Tiago Machado Oliveira publicado por IPEA (2012). “O objetivo deste livro é realizar uma análise…
The fight for relevance by Carlos A. Primo Braga published by IMD (6/2013). “It has become a cliché to say that the WTO is at a crossroads. The multilateral Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations are about to mark their…
Desenvolvido pelo MIT Center for Collective Intelligence e indicado por Cristina Garcia, Climate Colab tem por objetivo aproveitar a inteligência coletiva de milhares de pessoas de todo o mundo para enfrentar a mudança climática global. Observar no site que…
From imitation to innovation: public policy for industrial transformation by Pierre-Richard Agénor and Hinh T. Dinh published by World Bank (5/2013). “What role does public policy play in helping countries accelerate the industrialization process? This note aims to answer…
Overcoming the “empty box syndrome”. Determinants of income distribution in Latin America by Ivonne González and Ricardo Martner published by CEPAL Review (12/2012). “Latin America´s persistent inequality seen to reflect the lack of specific policies to reduce income disparities….
The effects of Brazil’s high taxation and social spending on the distribution of household income by Sean Higgins and Claudiney Pereira published by Commitment to Equity (01/2013). “…The rich detail of our data set allows us to single out…
Improving the performance of the property tax in Latin America by Claudia M. De Cesare published by Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. “…While there is great diversity in property tax administration among Latin American countries, most have a poor…