Download or read book Improving Infrastructure Financing in Brazil written by Inter American Development Bank and published by Inter-American Development Bank. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Filling the Gap written by Ms.Mercedes Garcia-Escribano and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2015-07-29 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infrastructure bottlenecks have been identified as a key obstacle to growth affecting productivity and market efficiency, and hindering domestic integration and export performance. This paper assesses the state of Brazil’s infrastructure, in light of past investment trends and various quality and quantity indicators. Brazil’s infrastructure stock and its quality rank low in relation to that of comparator countries, chosen amongst main export competitors. We provide evidence that infrastructure affects domestic integration by analyzing price convergence of tradable goods across major cities. The government’s concession program will narrow part of the infrastructure gap, however, governance reforms will be crucial to improving investment efficiency.
Download or read book Back to Planning written by Martin Raiser and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does Brazil continue to lag its peers in the quality of physical infrastructure? What are the implications for growth prospects? What could be done to close the infrastructure gap? These are the key questions addressed in this new report on infrastructure in Brazil. The key argument of the report is that Brazil needs to improve its capacity to plan and prioritize its infrastructure investments. Poorly prioritized and prepared infrastructure investments are a key reason why successive government programs, often with significant budget allocations, have had limited impact. Insufficient planning efforts have meant that what investment takes place has done little to reduce glaring inefficiencies and losses. With more efforts upstream to prepare a robust pipeline of projects, Brazil is in an excellent position to attract commercial financing to its infrastructure. With more attention to sector planning and governance, losses could be reduced and the effective resources available to infrastructure could be roughly doubled. This in turn would help boost growth and improve the quality of public services without the need for much additional public money. The report analyzes recent government measures such as the creation of the PPI and develops recommendations how infrastructure can become an engine of economic recovery in Brazil.
Download or read book Financing Cities written by George E Peterson and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007-04-04 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the need to boost infrastructure investment in cities as also the necessity for fiscal management across all levels of government-within the context of decentralizing service delivery responsibilities. The volume provides case studies reflecting various viewpoints and a range of success and failure stories from five countries. The topics covered include: - Impact of political and fiscal decentralization - Limitations on borrowing - Managing moral hazard - The role of the financial sector in striking a balance between controls and encouraging the local government to maintain fiscal discipline
Download or read book Long Term Funding in Brazil written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Inside Brazil written by Vinod Thomas and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazil faces important issues as to whether and how socio-economic and political reforms will be pursued with urgency and staying power. This book presents a strong agenda and action plan to achieve for Brazil both economic growth and improved welfare for its citizens.
Download or read book Highways to Heaven written by Ms.Valerie Cerra and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inadequate infrastructure has been widely viewed as a principal barrier to growth and development in Latin America and the Caribbean. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of infrastructure in the region and highlights key areas in which infrastructure networks can be enhanced. The public and private sectors play complementary roles in improving the infrastructure network. Therefore, it is critical to strengthen public investment management processes as well as the regulatory framework, including to ensure an appropriate mix of financing and funding for projects and to address environmental concerns.
Download or read book The Experience of Semi Formal Infrastructure Finance in Developing Countries written by André Carvalho and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper has the purpose of analyzing the role of civil society in funding and providing infrastructure projects in developing countries. Considering that local associations around the world have been directly engaged on some infrastructure projects - some scholars define it as “semi-formal finance” - the intention is to demonstrate that the experiences on such arrangements in developing countries have been responsible for fostering infrastructure investments in the poorer regions where the government is more absent. Based upon legal, economic and social aspects, this paper aims to contribute to a broader debate for the development of infrastructure in emerging countries. Therefore, the introduction deals with new approaches in public administration, as well as the actual broader concept of privatization. Next, I assume that the Third Sector has a great role in this process, but the current regulation in Brazil serves to prevent such arrangements. In the last section, the objective is to argue that civil society, even without the help of organized entities such NGOs, may have a strong role on such semi-formal finance arrangements in Brazil: in many developing countries, informal arrangements were responsible for boost small infrastructures in poor regions. The conclusion is that, under a more social approach, the legal and economic mechanisms in developing countries are able to consider such arrangements in the benefit of their development.In this context, it raises the possibility of civil society provision in small and specific public infrastructure projects, in order to match demands that are not provided by the state (or provided unsatisfactorily). So, local projects in several areas may emerge as alternatives to satisfy these small demands. This type of funding by a semi-formal sector is conceived especially in developing countries, where the states are not self-sufficient in their public duties. Latin America - and specially Brazil - is more connected to this concept due to its uniformity in key public policy issues and the respective state's failure with the direct provision, so that it is a proposal to be considered by the region for reducing the existing economic and social disparities.
Download or read book Infrastructure Finance written by Anand G. Chandavarkar and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Competitiveness and Growth in Brazilian Cities written by Ming Zhang and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2009-11-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Competitiveness and Growth in Brazilian Cities' addresses the question of what cities can do to improve economic performance and create jobs. The topic is explored through a review of theories and policy options for city competitiveness, preliminary benchmarking of Brazilian cities, and case studies of two urban areas in Northeast Brazil the Cariri region, Cear and S o Lu s, Maranh o. The book concludes that to be competitive, cities need to reduce the cost of doing business by improving their services and infrastructure and by reducing bureaucracies. But for a middle-income country such as Brazil, which needs to be economically competitive in a globalized environment, this is not sufficient. Cities also need to add value to local businesses. A crucial part of their strategy should be to create and sustain an environment that stimulates local firms to innovate and learn from each other, to nurture the creation of synergies generated by the interconnected economic clusters in the city, and to provide incentives for all local players to continuously upgrade their level of competitiveness. With regard to local policy actions, this book highlights the cluster approach to competitiveness, with its focus on facilitating private-sector collaborations for collective efficiency. 'Competitiveness and Growth in Brazilian Cities' provides many examples of actions that may be undertaken at the local level, emphasizing the critical importance for cities to pursue a unique strategy based on their comparative and competitive advantages.
Download or read book Filling the Gap written by Mercedes Garcia-Escribano and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Financing Energy Efficiency written by Robert P. Taylor and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008-02-08 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While energy efficiency projects could partly meet new energy demand more cheaply than new supplies, weak economic institutions in developing and transitional economies impede developing and financing energy efficiency retrofits. This book analyzes these difficulties, suggests a 3-part model for projectizing and financing energy efficiency retrofits, and presents thirteen case studies to illustrate the issues and principles involved.
Download or read book Infrastructure Bonds in Brazil written by Claudia Sardenberg Sussekind and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Meeting the Infrastructure Challenge in Latin America and the Caribbean written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) stand at a point of transition. During the 1980s in the face of the unavoidable need to correct macroeconomic imbalances, economic growth largely came to a halt, some of the poor became poorer, and not only new investment but even routine maintenance of economic infrastructure was often neglected or deferred. This report suggests a number of ideas to help countries address their infrastructure challenges, including a variety of models for structuring the participation of domestic and international private capital. The report also states the World Bank's commitment to serve as a proactive catalyst for mobilizing private capital for improved infrastructure service provision in LAC. The World Bank will intensify efforts toward policy and regulatory reform and contribute financial resouces or provide guarantees to help strenghten infrastructurae in LAC.
Download or read book OECD Economic Surveys Brazil 2023 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brazilian economy rebounded strongly after the Covid-19 pandemic. Resilient domestic demand, supported by social transfers, continues to drive growth. Inflation is decreasing, providing room for further monetary policy easing. However, public debt remains high, calling for a credible fiscal framework and improved spending efficiency.
Download or read book Slum Upgrading written by Fernanda Magalhães and published by Inter-American Development Bank. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main goal of this book is to disseminate the useful lessons learned from urban development and favela urbanization operations in Brazil financed by the Inter-American Development Bank and the Brazilian government. These lessons underpin the recommendations for the design of public policies on the subject. It is hoped that they will also contribute to improving the efficiency of specific programs.
Download or read book Financing Cities written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting experiences from India, China, Brazil, South Africa and Poland, 'Financing Cities' examines the need to boost infrastructure investment in cities as well as the need for prudent fiscal management across all levels of government. This is discussed within the context of the decentralization of service delivery responsibilities
