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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814901003321

Autore

Adrogué Ricardo

Titolo

Brazil’s Long-Term Growth Performance—Trying to Explain the Puzzle / / Ricardo Adrogué, Martin Cerisola, Gaston Gelos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-4623-5988-4

1-4527-8544-9

1-283-51781-7

9786613830265

1-4519-0995-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (21 pages)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

CerisolaMartin

GelosGaston

Soggetti

Banks and Banking

Finance: General

Foreign Exchange

Macroeconomics

Public Finance

Macroeconomics: Consumption

Saving

Wealth

Fiscal Policy

Portfolio Choice

Investment Decisions

Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects

Finance

Currency

Foreign exchange

Government consumption

Fiscal policy

International liquidity

Real interest rates

Real exchange rates

Consumption

Economics

International finance

Interest rates

Brazil



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. BRAZIL'S LONG-TERM GROWTH PERFORMANCE IN A CROSS-COUNTRY CONTEXT -- III. ASSESSING BRAZIL'S GROWTH PERFORMANCE IN A DYNAMIC PANEL MODEL -- IV. DISSECTING BRAZIL'S GROWTH DETERMINANTS -- V. CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDICES -- I. TABLE. SALA-I-MARTIN'S LIST OF 21 VARIABLES -- II. DATA DEFINITIONS AND VARIABLES -- REFERENCES.

Sommario/riassunto

This paper assesses Brazil's growth performance from a long-term perspective, using crosscountry and panel estimation techniques, building on the vast empirical literature on growth. The empirical evidence presented in this paper confirms that macroeconomic stability and several reforms have helped raise per capita growth in Brazil since the mid-1990s. The results also show that some long-standing structural weaknesses continue to weigh negatively on per capita growth. Reducing the high level of government consumption would help lower the overall consumption level in the economy and lower its intertemporal price-the real interest rate-thus helping to foster investment and growth.