What Role Should Government Regulation Play in Ecological Restoration? Ongoing Debate in São Paulo State, Brazil

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Fiscal policy contradiction: a perspective on Brazil and Mexico

The aim of this paper is to discuss the quality of fiscal policy in Brazil and Mexico and investigate whether fiscal policy influence is favorable to reduce the unemployment rate. Public spending, which has a positive effect on the level of employment when results in additional aggregate demand, may cause a negative effect on employment, if its financing depends on persistent high interest rates. Brazil and Mexico have engaged in a long effort to control public spending and to reduce the public deficit to zero. Does this policy bring a positive result to the economic activity no matter how actual public deficit has been financed? We select variables related to public budget as public sector borrowing requirements, taxes, public debt and others to form a data base. The fiscal institutional arrangement and the data allow us to evaluate the fiscal policy as a whole and to discuss the importance of credibility and reputation of the government.

Brazilian foreign policy in the Cardoso era: The search for autonomy through integration

The Fernando Henrique Cardoso administration attempted to replace a reactive foreign policy agenda dominated by a logic of autonomy through distance with a proactive international agenda guided by a logic of autonomy through integration. In adopting this agenda, the administration maintained that Brazil would be able to confront its problems and secure more control over its future if it actively contributed to elaborating the norms and guidelines of the administration of the global order. Because of structural weaknesses, however, this policy of integration, adherence, and participation was not adequately accompanied by positions entailing practical responsibilities - responsibilities that would have prepared both government and civil society for a higher profile in the post - cold-war era. In the end, the gains achieved during Cardoso's tenure failed to alter Brazil's international standing in any significant way. © 2007 Latin American Perspectives.

Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2007-2008: Macroeconomic policy and volatility

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Fostering economic policy coordination in Latin America: the REDIMA approach to escaping the prisoner's dilemma

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Distributive impact of public policy

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Poverty and income distribution in Latin America: on the complementarities between trade policy and social public spending

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Legal and economic interfaces between antidumping and competition policy

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Theory and practice of industrial policy: evidence from the Latin American experience

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Quality management and competitiveness: the diffusion of the ISO 9000 standards in Latin America and recommendations for government strategies

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Innovation and technology policy (ITP) for catching up: a three phase life cycle framework for industrializing economies

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Institutional and policy convergence with growth divergence in Latin America

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Macroeconomic volatility and social vulnerability in Brazil: the Cardoso government (1995-2002) and perspectives

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A comparative study of health care policy in the United States and Canada: what policymakers in Latin America might and might not learn from their neighbors to the North

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Generating inclusive and sustainable growth: the role of policy and multilevel fiscal institutions

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