Brazil: Selected Issues Paper

May 12, 2015

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Brazil: Selected Issues Paper, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2015) accessed December 21, 2024

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.

Subject: Currency swaps, Financial services, Foreign exchange, Infrastructure, Labor, Minimum wages, National accounts, Wage adjustments, Yield curve

Keywords: Africa, Bond yield, Brazil, CR, Credit multiplier, Currency swaps, FX swap, Global, Infrastructure, Infrastructure investment, ISCR, Minimum wage, Minimum wage rule, Minimum wages, Wage, Wage adjustments, Wage distribution, Yield curve

Publication Details

Pages:

102
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2015/122
Stock No:

1BRAEA2015002
ISBN:

9781475521320
ISSN:

1934-7685

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