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Economic Survey of Brazil 2009: Reforming indirect taxes and labour levies

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14-Jul-2009

The complexities and fragmentation of Brazil’s tax system make it particularly onerous to enterprises, making it a priority for reform. The state-level VAT has often been used as an industrial policy instrument, ...

Price and volume elasticities of Brazilian foreign trade: A profit function approach

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06-Jul-2009

Luiz de Mello and Mauro Pisu

To investigate the possible impact of terms of trade gains on the real economy, this paper estimates normalised quadratic input demand and output supply functions for the Brazilian economy during 1997-2008.

Current account sustainability in Brazil: A non linear approach

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06-Jul-2009

Luiz de Mello and Matteo Mogliani

To shed further light on this issue in the context of emerging market economies, this paper uses Brazilian data to estimate the determinants of the current account in a smooth transition vector autoregressive (ST VAR) setting.

Senior budget official country reviews of budgeting systems

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09-Dec-2008

The objective of senior budget official country reviews is to provide a comprehensive overview of the budget process in the country under examination, to evaluate national experiences in the light of international best practice and to provide specific policy recommendations.

Economic Survey of Brazil 2009: Making government operations more cost-effective

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14-Jul-2008

Despite considerable progress in many areas, there remains substantial scope for making government operations more cost-effective. Brazil spends a high share of GDP on selected government financed programmes ...

Economic Survey of Brazil 2009: Reaping the benefits of macroeconomic consolidation

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14-Jul-2008

Despite the current problems related to the global financial and economic crisis, ongoing macroeconomic adjustment continues to bear fruit. Attainment of the primary budget surplus targets has delivered ...

Economic Survey of Brazil 2009: Looking beyond the global financial and economic crisis towards sustained growth

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14-Jul-2008

Brazil’s economic fundamentals have improved considerably in the ten years following the abandonment of exchange rate management in 1999 and adoption of a policy framework combining inflation targeting, ...

Brazil: Strengthening governance for growth - Executive summary

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28-May-2008

Brazil has now entered a more advanced phase of economic development, with the need to strengthen the institutional foundations for a market-based economy.

OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform - Brazil: Strengthening Governance for Growth

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28-May-2008

This review analyses the challenges of strengthening regulatory governance in Brazil to improve economic growth, with appropriate regulatory frameworks for core infrastructure sectors.

The Brazilian "tax war": The case of value-added tax competition among the states

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22-Feb-2007

Luiz de Mello

This paper tests for horizontal tax competition in the VAT (ICMS) for a sample of Brazilian states in the period 1985-2001, based on the estimation of a tax reaction function.  Economics Department Working Paper 544.