The discussions at last month’s G-20 meeting of finance ministers were dominated by anxiety over so-called “currency wars.” But, to escape the crisis, global leaders must shift their focus to channeling the massive liquidity that advanced countries' controversial monetary policies have generated toward long-term investment financing.
Brazil’s success in reducing poverty and income inequality has been widely reported in recent years. What is less known is that there has also been progress in lessening gender inequality in…
VoxEU Brazilian exports of goods and services have grown sharply in recent years, tripling since 2000. This column argues that Brazil’s export performance depends mostly on favourable geographical and sector…
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim’s recent Washington Post op-ed “Make Climate Change a Priority” warned that “global warming imperils all of the development gains we have made”. Jim…
ESTADO DE MINAS, 13 fevereiro 2013 Para economista, empresário quer segurança para investir S Paulo Silva Pinto Brasília – O economista Otaviano Canuto participou do governo Lula em 2003, quando…
How to Improve Brazil's Industrial Growth and Export Performance https://youtu.be/jnBvogssgQQ Low industrial productivity growth and disappointing export performances are the center of an economic policy debate raging in Brazil.…
As the Carnival in Brazil kicked off last weekend, Brazilians were ready for a party. They have reasons to celebrate. Despite a lackluster GDP performance in the last two…
ENTREVISTA - 30/01/2013 07h00 Otaviano Canuto: "Há uma armadilha no caminho do Brasil" Um país passar de pobre a remediado é um feito importante que o Brasil já realizou. Mas…
China Radio International 2013-01-15 17:38:54 CRIENGLISH.com Web Editor: Chen Cong (Click on WMA - Windows Media Player - podcast available) To reach a middle income level is something…
I'm sure I'm not the only one who uses my mobile phone for almost everything but to make a call. Thanks to technological advances and the explosion of social…
In recent weeks, fiscal policy – once the domain of policy wonks – has become part of dinner-table conversations. As Washington attempts to put its fiscal house in order,…
In practice, theory is something else. I've already heard variants of this expression in several countries and languages. Very often from people referring to the gap between abstract, generic…
"The features of East Asia's experience in transitioning from middle- to high-income status provide important lessons for other countries that are attempting to follow suit."
The World Bank has been tracking the world's progress against poverty since the late eighties, but the release of 2008 data was the first time in which all regions…
Last May, in China, WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy remarked: “The global economy is being transformed at an unprecedented speed and at the heart of that transformation is the services economy.…