Brazil's election: as polarized as can be

In this paper we analyse public sector efficiency in the new member states of the European Union compared to that in emerging markets.. After a conceptual discussion of expenditure

This paper analyses the effects in terms of size and volatility of government revenue and spending on growth in OECD and EU countries. The results of the paper suggest that both

produces significant evidence in favour of the existence of a cointegration relationship for three panels sets out of five (EU15, Cgroup21, Cgroup26) for any specification of

Specifically, we rely on a range of estimates of public sector efficiency (from Afonso, Schuknecht and Tanzi (2005, 2006)) to illustrate numerically that the relative importance

Indeed, a discretionary improvement in the primary budget balance of one percentage point of GDP is related to an increase in the probability of success of the fiscal consolidation

The study reviews the literature and, thereby, provides arguments and quantitative evidence that fiscal policies are of high quality and support growth if they fulfil the

implicações da violência, como potencialmente arriscada ou em casos mais extremos, uma influência seguramente negativa sobre as pessoas e a sociedade, que alguns estudantes de

Contudo, além das palavras levadas pelo vento das décadas, chegaram até nós o registro das impressões dessa tentativa de estreitamento cultural entre o Brasil e a região do Rio