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Economics as a 'trade' does very well in New Zealand. Economists are taken relatively seriously in government policy processes. For better or worse, economic ideas were major drivers of the reforms in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Plenty of well-paid job opportunities exist in the private...
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The international literature on minimum wage strongly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. In Brazil …
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The international literature on minimum wage greatly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. Brazil …
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El objetivo de este paper es realizar una descripción del caso brasileño, en lo que hace a la salida de un sistema en el cual el ancla nominal de la economía era un tipo de cambio semi-fijo, hacia un régimen de flotación “cuasi” limpia de la moneda, en el que el ancla de la economía...
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Brazil, VASP used to be second place. With financial problems, VASP could not buy new airplanes and its fleet was from the 70 …
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This paper examines the determinants of the real effective exchange rate (REER) in Brazil, from 1994 to 2003. Building …
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. The accelerated growth episodes observed in Brazil and China demonstrate that the increase in income inequality may have …
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sector are under consideration in countries throughout the world. Brazil, though something of a latecomer to wider … infrastructure reform, has recently taken large steps in restructuring its railroad system. This paper analyzes Brazil's ongoing … railroad reforms, seeking to place them in the context both of the broader reform project going on in Brazil and of railroad …
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States of America, Indonesia and Brazil in the period 1980-2000. They are all federations composed of entities (states or …
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the existence of a spatial dependence of crime rates at a local level in the case of municipalities of Minas Gerais, one of the 26 Brazilian states. Results suggest the existence of a positive spatial autocorrelation of municipal violent crime rates....
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