My admiration for hummingbirds began in my native Brazil. The hummingbird’s flight patterns may seem a mystery as they shift from one flower to the next. But hummingbirds are…
O risco de mais um apagão Atualmente, há no País 600 mil engenheiros, o equivalente a 6 profissionais para cada mil trabalhadores. Nos Estados Unidos e no Japão, a…
Diretor do Banco Mundial palestra sobre produtividade e debate portos em Vitória 27 de março de 2018 Foto: Jackson Gonçalves O economista Otaviano Canuto destacou propostas para melhorar…
CEBRAP - Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento São Paulo Advanced School of Social Sciences - Session #01 [March 23th, 2018] Lecture: "Globalization and inequalities: what we have learned from international experience", by Otaviano Canuto [The World Bank].
Brazilian “conditional cash transfers” are small amounts of money distributed by the government directly to very poor households on condition that their children attend school and are vaccinated. Do…
IGUALDADE DE OPORTUNIDADES PARA MULHERES AUMENTA O CRESCIMENTO ECONÔMICO Desde 1975, por iniciativa da ONU, celebra-se 8 de março como o Dia Internacional das Mulheres. Todos os dias, porém, dever-se-ia…
Brown bag lunch of the Fullbright Network of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund Watch it here
The slowdown in Latin America since 2012 has been accompanied by weak and slightly decelerating potential growth, reflecting sluggish productivity, scarcity of fixed investments and demographic changes. Positive global economic prospects for 2018, the regional cyclical recovery, and policy initiatives to lift productivity are presenting Latin America's leaders with the opportunity to alter that trajectory.
A indústria manufatureira cumpriu papel especial como veículo para a criação de empregos, aumentos de produtividade e crescimento nas economias não avançadas a partir de meados do século passado.…
Household, community-, or national-level stability in income, consumption, or assets, and the supporting foundations thereof are a neglected area of analysis and concern among economists and policymakers. Household- and…
A profundidade da recessão atravessada recentemente pela economia brasileira pode ser notada no declínio, em termos reais, em torno de 30% dos investimentos a partir do início de 2014.…
George Washington University GWU Institute for International Science and Technology Policy Live stream of the IISTP Seminar of Parallel, Overlapping Globalizations with Otaviano Canuto of the World Bank Click…
Outlook on Brazil and Southern Cone Economies Council of the Americas, February 6, 2018 Council of the Americas and FONPLATA held a discussion on the Southern Cone economies in…
Current technological developments in manufacturing are likely to lead to a partial reversal of the wave of fragmentation and global value chains that was at the core of the rise of North-South trade from 1990 onward. At the same time, China – the main hub of the global-growth-cum-structural-change of that period – may attempt to extend the previous wave through its One Belt, One Road initiative.
It is 2018 and ECON+ is delighted to start the year off with another fantastic conversation with Otaviano Canuto, Executive Director at the World Bank, to continue this series of…