1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990000112220403321

Autore

Vigreux, L.

Titolo

Les chemins de fer a cremailleres et les chemins de fer funiculaires a cremailleres a l'exposition universelle de 1889 / parL. Vigreux et F. Loppe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris : E. Bernard et C., 1893-

Descrizione fisica

v. ; 27 cm

Disciplina

625.3

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910701328103321

Titolo

International Space Station [[electronic resource] ] : approaches for ensuring utilization through 2020 are reasonable but should be revisited as NASA gains more knowledge of on-orbit performance : report to congressional committees

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, , [2011]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ii, 42 pages) : illustrations

Soggetti

Astronautics - United States - Cost control

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from PDF title screen (viewed Jan. 5, 2012).

"December 2011."

"GAO-12-162."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788405703321

Autore

de Carvalho Filho Irineu

Titolo

The Myth of Post-Reform Income Stagnation in Brazil / / Irineu de Carvalho Filho, Marcos Chamon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-2860-1

1-4527-3197-7

1-283-51548-2

1-4519-0988-8

9786613827937

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (36 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

ChamonMarcos

Soggetti

Inflation (Finance) - Brazil

Structural adjustment (Economic policy) - Brazil

Macroeconomics

Public Finance

Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis

Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth

Environmental Accounts

Measurement and Analysis of Poverty

Economic Development: General

Economic Integration

National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General

Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions

Price Level

Inflation

Deflation

Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics: Household Analysis: General

Public finance & taxation

Expenditure

Personal income

Consumer price indexes

Total expenditures

Household consumption

National accounts

Prices

Expenditures, Public



Income

Price indexes

Consumption

Economics

Brazil

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"December 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. EMPIRICAL METHODOLOGY""; ""III. DATA""; ""IV. RESULTS""; ""V. EVIDENCE FROM DURABLE GOODS OWNERSHIP AND ANTHROPOMETRICS""; ""VI. CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""

Sommario/riassunto

This paper uses Engel curves to estimate real income growth in Brazil. The estimated per capita household real income growth in metropolitan areas during 1987-2002 is about 4½ percent per year, well above the "headline" growth of 1½ percent obtained by deflating nominal incomes by the CPI. This suggests a substantial CPI bias during that period, likely owing to one-off effects of trade liberalization and inflation stabilization. The estimated unmeasured gains are higher for poorer households, implying a marked reduction in "real" inequality. This finding challenges the conventional wisdom that post-reform real income growth in Brazil was low.