In this paper we measure inequality of opportunity in daycare and preschool services in Brazil. For this purpose, we construct an opportunity index that modifies the Human Opportunity Index proposed in the literature and used in Barros et al. (<CitationRef CitationID="CR5">2009</CitationRef>) to measure inequality in basic opportunities...</citationref>

Neste trabalho, são analisados alguns métodos que podem ser usados para realizar agrupamentos de unidade que compõem algum sistema de provisão de serviços públicos (por exemplo, escolas, postos de saúde e delegacias). Os métodos aqui analisados são: i) o baseado em alguma partição...

This article presents a group of exercises of level and growth decomposition of output per worker using cross-country data from 1970 to 2000. It is shown that in the early seventies factors of production (capital and education) were the main source of output dispersion across economies and that...

In a widely cited paper, Young (1995) showed that the East Asian miracles (Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan) grew mostly through input accumulation during the period 1966-1990. Using data for 83 countries taken from the Penn World Table, version 6.1, and Barro and Lee (2000), we use a...

Productivity growth in Brazil has not kept pace with developed and emerging economies, despite progress in achieving macroeconomic stability and implementing reforms in product and input markets. This paper reviews the literature on reforms and growth in Brazil to understand the factors that...

Due to widespread government intervention and import-substitution industrialization, there has been a general perception that Latin America has been much less productive than the leading economies in the last decades. In this paper, however, we show that until the mid-seventies Latin America had...