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Active with Brazil 2018 (Portuguese)

Active with Brazil Brochure (Portuguese) 2018

Active with Brazil 2018

The 2018 edition of the Active with Brazil brochure presents the different areas of cooperation between the OECD and Brazil.

Water Charges in Brazil - The Ways Forward

How's life in Brazil?

This note presents selected findings based on the set of well-being indicators published in How's Life? 2017.

Brazil's Federal Court of Accounts - Insight and Foresight for Better Governance

Brazil's Development Co-operation

Brazil is a South-South co-operation provider. The most recent available figures on Brazil’s development co-operation programme are for 2013 (Ipea and ABC, 2016) and were published in 2016. The 2013 figure – a total of USD 397 million – includes activities that are not, or not entirely, included as development co-operation in Development Assistance Committee (DAC) statistics.

OECD Employment Outlook 2017 - Key findings for Brazil

Between 2007 and 2014 Brazil sustained high employment rates, well above the OECD average. The country has historically high participation rates for men and women, as well a relatively low unemployment rate.

Business brief: Towards renewal in our business culture

Brazil is steadily investing in the creation of rules and regulations to converge to governance standards already consolidated in developed countries. Complying with these international standards is indispensable if Brazilian companies intend to operate on a global scale.

Reforming Brazil’s pension system

Brazil’s old-age pensions have reduced old-age poverty below OECD levels, but pension expenditures of 8.2% of GDP are expected to rise rapidly as the population ages. A pension reform is necessary to ensure the financial sustainability of the system.

PISA 2015 country note for Brazil

This country note presents student performance in science, reading and mathematics, and measures equity in education in Brazil.