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Brazil Selected Issues Paper

This Selected Issues paper examines infrastructure investment in Brazil. Brazil has inferior overall infrastructure quality relative to almost all its export competitors. Brazil’s infrastructure endowment ranks low by international standards, and its low quality affects productivity, market efficien...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund Western Hemisphere Dept
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 2015
Series:IMF Staff Country Reports
Subjects:
Interest Rates
Minimum Wage
Investment
Finance
Labour
Wage Adjustments
Infrastructure
Monetary Economics
Financial Services
Wages, Compensation, And Labor Costs: General
Currency
Intangible Capital
Yield Curve
National Accounts
Minimum Wages
Labor
Foreign Exchange
Wages, Compensation, And Labor Costs: Public Policy
Saving And Investment
Banks And Banking
Macroeconomics
Currency Swaps
Wages
Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, And Effects
Capacity
Capital
Money And Monetary Policy
Income Economics
Brazil
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Collection: International Monetary Fund - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This Selected Issues paper examines infrastructure investment in Brazil. Brazil has inferior overall infrastructure quality relative to almost all its export competitors. Brazil’s infrastructure endowment ranks low by international standards, and its low quality affects productivity, market efficiency, and competitiveness. Areas in which Brazil’s competitiveness has lagged include, but are not limited to, education, innovation, governance, and justice. Brazil’s infrastructure gap has become a major obstacle to growth and filling this gap will entail increasing investment and also stepping up other reforms
Physical Description:102 pages
ISBN:9781475521320

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