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Category : Brazil
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
XXIII Encontro Brasileiro de Econometria
Author: Revista de econometria
Author: Performance Measurement and Regulation of Network Utilities
Author: Tim CoelliPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781781956519
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This book explores the important role that economic performance measurement is playing in the regulation of network utilities in many countries today. The contributors to the book - researchers from academia, regulatory agencies and consulting firms - address the use of efficiency measures in price regulation and in assessing the effects of past regulatory reforms. Industries examined include electricity supply, water supply, telecommunications and airlines, across a range of countries including the USA, UK, Norway, the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand.
Brazilian Review of Econometrics
Author: Infrastructure Performance and Reform in Developing and Transition Economies
Author: Lourdes TrujilloPublisher: World Bank Publications
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Category : Industrial productivity
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
"Estache, Perelman, and Trujillo review about 80 studies on electricity and gas, water and sanitation, and rail and ports (with a footnote on telecommunications) in developing countries. The main policy lesson is that there is a difference in the relevance of ownership for efficiency between utilities and transport in developing countries. In transport, private operators have tended to perform better than public operators. For utilities, ownership often does not matter as much as sometimes argued. Most cross-country studies find no statistically significant difference in efficiency scores between public and private providers. As for the country-specific studies, some do find differences in performance over time but these differences tend to matter much less than a large number of other variables. Across sectors, private operators functioning in a competitive environment or regulated under price caps or hybrid regulatory regimes tend to catch up best practice faster than public operators. There is a very strong case to push regulators in developing and transition economies toward a more systematic reliance on yardstick competition in a sector in which residual monopoly powers tend to be common. This paper--a product of the Office of the Vice President, Infrastructure Network--is part of a larger effort in the network to document the state of the sector"--World Bank web site.
Rbe
Author: Revival: Structure and Structural Change in the Brazilian Economy (2001)
Author: Joaquim J.M. GuilhotoPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351774913
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
This title was first published in 2001. Significant changes have occurred in the Brazilian economy over the last decade yet this is one of the first volumes to draw them together into a comprehensive discussion. It is suitable for development economists, regional scientists, policy analysts and those scholars with an interest in access to a wide range of economic analyses of structural changes in the Brazilian economy.
The Rise and Fall of Brazilian Inequality, 1981-2004
Author: Phillippe George LeitePublisher: World Bank Publications
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Category : Desigualdad economica - Brasil
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
"Measured by the Gini coefficient, income inequality in Brazil rose from 0.57 in 1981 to 0.63 in 1989, before falling back to 0.56 in 2004. This latest figure would lower Brazil's world inequality rank from 2nd (in 1989) to 10th (in 2004). Poverty incidence also followed an inverted U-curve over the past quarter century, rising from 0.30 in 1981 to 0.33 in 1993, before falling to 0.22 in 2004. Using standard decomposition techniques, this paper presents a preliminary investigation of the determinants of Brazil's distributional reversal over this period. The rise in inequality in the 1980s appears to have been driven by increases in the educational attainment of the population in a context of convex returns, and by high and accelerating inflation. While the secular decline in inequality, which began in 1993, is associated with declining inflation, it also appears to have been driven by four structural and policy changes which have so far not attracted sufficient attention in the literature, namely sharp declines in the returns to education; pronounced rural-urban convergence; increases in social assistance transfers targeted to the poor; and a possible decline in racial inequality. Although poverty dynamics since the Real Plan of 1994 have been driven primarily by economic growth, the decline in inequality has also made a substantial contribution to poverty reduction. "--World Bank web site.
Accessions List, Brazil
Author: Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, BrazilPublisher:
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Category : Brazil
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
New Serial Titles
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1768
Book Description
A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.