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[BOOK] The Brazilian economy: growth and development

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W Baer - 2001 - books.google.com
Bringing the analysis of Brazil's economic performance up to date, Baer's classic text
remains the only book in English to provide a thorough historical, statistical, and institutional
description of the Brazilian economy. After touching on such issues as Brazil's exporting ...
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Employment and industrialization in developing countries

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W Baer… - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1966 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract I. Introduction, 88.—II. Growth of manufacturing production and employment, 90.—
III. Problem of maximizing the output from capital in developing countries, 93.—IV. The
effective supply of labor and capital-intensive techniques of production, 97.—V. No drastic ...
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Import Substitution and Industrialization in Latin Amercia: Experiences and Interpretations

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W Baer - Latin American Research Review, 1972 - JSTOR
THROUGHOUT MOST OF THE FIFTIES AND SIXTIES MANY LATIN AMERICAN GOVERN-
ments adopted Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI) as their principal method to achieve
economic growth and socio-economic modernization. By the opening of the Seventies, ...
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The economics of Prebisch and ECLA

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W Baer - Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1962 - JSTOR
the Second World War," 2 and that this deterioration appeared again in the 1950's. Most
critics stop at this point and begin to argue about the validity of making statements about
long-term deterioration of terms of trade; or about the importance of knowing what kinds of ...
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[CITATION] The development of the Brazilian steel industry

W Baer - 1969 - Vanderbilt Univ Pr
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[CITATION] The changing role of the state in the Brazilian economy

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W Baer, I Kerstenetzky… - World Development, 1973 - ideas.repec.org
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Regional inequality and economic growth in Brazil

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W Baer - Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1964 - JSTOR
The phenomenon of unequal rates of economic growth of regions within a country is
becoming of acute interest to policy makers in such countries as Italy, the United States,
Canada, and Brazil. Since their principal aim is to formulate programs stimulating the ...
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Neoliberalism and income distribution in Latin America

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W Baer… - World Development, 1997 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the principal neoliberal policy measures instituted in Latin America in the
last decade and their impact on equity. It first emphasizes the difficulty of separating the
impact of liberalization measure from the necessary fiscal adjustments of the 1980s, and ...
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The inflation controversy in Latin America: A survey

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W Baer - Latin American Research Review, 1967 - JSTOR
THE QUESTIONS OF WHETHER INFLATION IS HARMFUL OR HELPFUL OR indifferent to
economic growth, whether the elimination of inflation should come before or after a high rate
of economic growth has been achieved, and the whole issue of what are the roots of the ...
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[BOOK] A economia brasileira

W Baer - 2003 - books.google.com
O livro traz uma análise do desenvolvimento econômico brasileiro do período colonial até
2002. O autor examina o desempenho em termos de economia exportadora desde os
primórdios até o impacto da inflação, analisa o governo Fernando Henrique Cardoso, ...
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Privatization and restructuring of banks in Brazil

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W Baer… - The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2000 - Elsevier
This article examines the origins of Brazil's state and private banks and how the decades of
inflation produced distortions in the way they functioned. It describes the crises that emerged
with the end of inflation and the measures taken by the Central Bank to deal with them. ...
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The illusion of stability: the Brazilian economy under Cardoso

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E Amann, W Baer - World Development, 2000 - Elsevier
This paper begins with a description of the main characteristics of Brazil's Real stabilization
program and its initial success in eliminating inflation. It then examines the use of the
exchange rate to keep inflation in check and the problems which overvaluation created. It ...
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The end of the Asian myth: why were the experts fooled?

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W Baer, WR Miles… - World Development, 1999 - Elsevier
This article examines the reasons behind the overoptimism of a large segment of the
economics profession concerning the performance of East Asian economies, which was
shattered by the financial crises of 1997–98. It also shows how the crisis placed into bold ...
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The achievements and failures of Argentina's neo-liberal economic policies

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W Baer, P Elosegui… - Oxford Development Studies, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
The stability of an economic policy regime depends in large measure on either its successful
authoritarian imposition or on the general acceptance by society of the distributional status
quo of assets and/or income. Although Argentina's Convertibility Plan (" Currency Board" ...
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Privatisation in Latin America

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W Baer - The World Economy, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
1980s, has also countries, with the paradigm, which has been sweeping the world since the
been fully integrated into the policies of Latin American exception of Cuba. Why did this
come about? How is privatisation being carried out? What are its implications for the future ...
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Neoliberalism and its Consequences in Brazil

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E Amann, W Baer - Journal of Latin American Studies, 2002 - Cambridge Univ Press
Abstract. This article examines the impact of a decade of neoliberal policies on poverty and
income distribution in Brazil. It demonstrates that while trade and market reform contributed
towards the attainment of price stability and accelerated capital inflows, little was achieved ...
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Import substitution and industrialization in Brazil

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W Baer… - The American economic review, 1964 - JSTOR
We shall analyze some aspects of the industrialization policies followed by the Brazilian
government in the post-World War II period. We shall concentrate on the effects upon the
structure of the economy, the rate of growth, and the performance of the principal new ...
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Privatization and the changing role of the state in Latin America

W Baer… - NYUJ Int'l L. & Pol., 1992 - HeinOnline
Before then, the economics literature on public enterprises was sparse and discussed
applications of long-run marginal cost pricing theory. Furthermore, rigorous literature on the
economics of privatization was limited. Despite few references to privatization, the ...
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Indexing in Brazil

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W Baer… - World Development, 1974 - Elsevier
Abstract After reviewing the distortions which inflation brought about in Brazil, the authors
describe the indexing system which was introduced during the sixties to prevent such
distortions and to build up a capital market. There follows an analysis of the impact of ...
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[CITATION] Industrialization and economic development in Brazil

W Baer - 1965 - orton.catie.ac.cr
SIDALC - Servicio de Informacion y Documentacion Agropecuaria de las Americas.
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[CITATION] The Brazilian boom 1968-72: an explanation and interpretation

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Economic integration without policy coordination: the case of Mercosur

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W Baer, T Cavalcanti… - Emerging Markets Review, 2002 - Elsevier
This paper analyses the evolution of the South American Common Market, Mercosur. We
show how the lack of coordination of macroeconomic policies, especially of the two major
participants (Argentina and Brazil), had caused trade strains. Divergent macro-economic ...
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Anchors Away: The Cost and Benefits of Brazil's Devaluation

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E Amann, W Baer - World Development, 2003 - Elsevier
This paper analyzes the impact of Brazil's devaluation in 1999. This event represents an
abandonment of the exchange rate anchor which had been used as a stabilization plan
since the introduction of the Real Plan in 1994. The reasons behind the abandonment of ...
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Toward a service-oriented growth strategy

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W Baer… - World Development, 1981 - Elsevier
Abstract This article suggests that the linkage between industrial modernization and
significant service sector employment gains has not been adequately considered and that
such consideration might lead to a re-evaluation of the labour absorption argument which ...
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[BOOK] On state capitalism in Brazil: some new issues and questions

W Baer, RS Newfarmer, TJ Trebat… - 1976 - getcited.org
ABSTRACT: Paper prepared for the 1976 workshop sponsored by the Public Sector Studies
Group, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, on" Implementation
in Latin America's public sector.". Includes bibliographical references.
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Structural changes in Brazil's industrial economy, 1960-1980

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W Baer, MAR Da Fonseca… - World Development, 1987 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper examines the structural changes in Brazil's economy which can be
observed through various censuses and input-output tables in the period 1960 to 1980. The
paper shows how the country's economy became more vertically integrated in those years ...
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Industrial growth and industrialization: revisions in the stages of Brazil's economic development

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W Baer… - The Journal of Developing Areas, 1973 - JSTOR
The notion that prior to World War I the economy of Brazil was thoroughly agricultural and
most manufactured products had to be imported; that only the outside shocks of World War I,
the depression of the 1930s, and World War II brought on industrialization, mainly of an ...
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Puerto Rico: An evaluation of a successful development program

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W Baer - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1959 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract I. Nature of the Puerto Rican development program, 645.—II. Changes in the
structure of the Puerto Rican economy, 652.—III. The possibilities of self-sustaining growth,
660.—IV. Growth and the standard of living, 662.—V. Features unique to the Puerto Rican ...
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The resurgence of inflation in Brazil, 1974-1986

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W Baer - World Development, 1987 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper examines various factors which contributed to the resurgence of inflation
in Brazil in the 1970s and 1980s, and the reasons for the failure of ortodox austerity
programs to control it. The evidence seems to black the school of thought which considers ...
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Expansion of the economic frontier: Paraguayan growth in the 1970s

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W Baer, MH Birch - World development, 1984 - Elsevier
Abstract The rapid growth of the Paraguayan economy over the last decade is analyzed in
terms of the expansion of agricultural production and an increase in construction activity.
Construction of the Itaipu Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric project, has provided ...
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The trouble with index-linking: Reflections on the recent Brazilian Experience

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W Baer… - World Development, 1980 - Elsevier
Abstract After reviewing the accomplishments of index-linking in Brazil, the authors analyse
the inflationary distortions which they caused. They describe the emergence of a two-units-of-
account system, where funds are constantly fleeing from the nominal to the index-linked ...
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The decline and fall of Brazil's Cruzado

W Baer… - Latin American Research Review, 1989 - JSTOR
On 28 February 1986, the Brazilian government announced a" heterodox" inflation
stabilization program that rapidly came to be called the Plano Cruzado. It was intended to
halt an inflation that appeared to be escaping control and untamable through orthodox ...
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[CITATION] A return to the past? Brazil's privatization of public utilities: The case of the electric power sector

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W Baer… - The Quarterly Review of Economics …, 1998 - econpapers.repec.org
... Please update your bookmarks. A Return to the Past? Brazil's Privatization of Public Utilities: The
Case of the Electric Power Sector. Werner Baer and Curt McDonald. The Quarterly Review of
Economics and Finance, 1998, vol. 38, issue 3, Part 1, pages 503-523. ...
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[CITATION] Inflation and growth in Latin America

W Baer, I Kerstenetzky… - 1964 - orton.catie.ac.cr
SIDALC - Servicio de Informacion y Documentacion Agropecuaria de las Americas.
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[CITATION] The role of government enterprises in Latin America's industrialization

W Baer - 1971
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Changing paradigms: Changing interpretations of the public sector in Latin America's economies

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W Baer - Public Choice, 1996 - Springer
This paper attempts to show that over time most economists' view of the role of the state in
Latin America's economies has changed considerably. In the 1950s and 1960s state
enterprises were considered to be an important instrument of economic development ...
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Import-Substitution, Stagnation, and Structural Change: An Interpretation of the Brazilian Case

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W Baer… - The Journal of Developing Areas, 1971 - JSTOR
Throughout most of the sixties the Brazilian economy experienced low rates of growth.
Industry, which was the leading sector in the rapid expansion of the economy in the fifties,
seemed to have lost its dynamism, while the growth of agriculture, either for export or for ...
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[CITATION] The regional impact of neo-liberal policies in Brazil

W Baer, E Haddad… - 1998 - University of Illinois at Urbana- …
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[CITATION] Paying the costs of austerity in Latin America

H Handelman… - 1989 - en.scientificcommons.org
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[CITATION] Technology, employment and development: Empirical findings

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Technology, employment and development: Empirical findings. Werner Baer. World Development,
1976, vol. 4, issue 2, pages 121-130. Date: 1976 Track citations by RSS feed. ...
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[CITATION] Social aspects of Latin American inflations

W Baer - 1990 - Instituto Torcuato di Tella, Centro de …
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From the developmental to the regulatory state: the transformation of the government's impact on the Brazilian economy

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E Amann, W Baer - The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2005 - Elsevier
This paper shows how the active participation of the state in various types of economic
activities played an important part in the industrialization of Brazil. It then shows how many
state enterprises became dysfunctional, which led to a process of privatization and the ...
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The international economic relations of a small country: the case of Paraguay

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W Baer… - Economic development and cultural change, 1987 - JSTOR
Introduction Small countries (those with populations of less than 10 million) make up a
significant portion of Latin America-they number 18 of 25 countries, and their inhabitants
make up about 20% of the region's population. Whether located in Central America, the ...
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Transportation and Inflation: A Study of Irrational Policy Making in Brazil

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W Baer, I Kerstenetzky… - Economic Development and …, 1965 - JSTOR
Although it has been argued that some aspects of the Brazilian inflation were favorable to
economic development, and that many of the drastic distortions usually attributed to inflation
were absent, 1 there exists one particular aspect of the Brazilian inflation which cannot be ...
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[PDF] Privatization and the Changing Role of the State in Brazil

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W Baer… - … in Latin-America: new roles for the …, 1994 - lasa.international.pitt.edu
During those years the sales of goods and services of federal state enterprises were larger
than operational expenditures and the... resulting operational surplus, added to other current
revenues, was large enough to allow the enterprises to run a sizable current surplus until ...
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[CITATION] Privatization in Latin America: new roles for the public and private sectors

W Baer, MH Birch - 1994 - lavoisier.fr
Privatization in Latin America: New Roles for the Public and
Private Sectors BAER WarnerBirch Melissa H.
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Furtado on development: a review essay

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W Baer - The Journal of Developing Areas, 1969 - JSTOR
Celso Furtado is one of Latin America's leading economists. Before his exile following
Brazil's change of regime in 1964, he was a director of the Brazilian Development Bank, the
founder and first superintendent of the Development Agency for Brazil's Northeast ( ...
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Brazil: Inflation and Economic Efficiency

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W Baer - Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1963 - JSTOR
The literature on inflation and economic growth in underdeveloped countries contains long
discussions about the possible harmful effects of inflation on the efficient allocation of
resources, especially capital, but few attempts at estimating empirically such effects. The ...
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[CITATION] The Puerto Rican Economy and United States Economic Fluctuations

W Baer - 1962 - Social Science Research Center, …
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[CITATION] The Brazilian Economy: Its Growth and Development (Columbus, Ohio

W Baer - 1979 - Grid Publishing
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[BOOK] Liberalization and its consequences: a comparative perspective on Latin America and Eastern Europe

W Baer - 2000 - books.google.com
'The manuscript fills a vacuum in the current literature on liberalization. It goes beyond the
concept to unearth sources of economic and political disruptions which have shaped past
performance and will more than likely impact future outcomes.'-Attiat F. Ott, Clark ...
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The economy of Portugal within the European Union: 1990–2002

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W Baer… - The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2004 - Elsevier
This article analyzes the impact of the EU on Portugal's economy, how the EU rules and
regulations have affected the country's policy-making style, and the impact of EU's transfer of
resources. It shows that Portugal has greatly benefitted from joining the EU: the rapid ...
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[CITATION] State enterprise and the distribution of income: Brazil and Peru

W Baer, A Figueroa - Authoritarian Capitalism: Brazil's Contemporary …, 1981
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[PDF] TEXAS PAPERS ON LATIN AMERICA

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JK Edwards, W Baer - 1993 - lanic.utexas.edu
The role of the state, priva te domestic firms, and foreign firms has changed substantially in
recent years throughout Latin America's economies. An almost universall y accepted goal in
the 1990s seems to be to reduce the presence of the state in the region's economies, to ...
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Economic Orthodoxy Versus Social Development? The Dilemmas Facing Brazil's Labour Government

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E Amann, W Baer - Oxford Development Studies, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
It has often been suggested that the trade-off between equity and efficiency can be
overcome by achieving both goals sequentially. This article shows how the government of
President Lula has tried to follow this rule, by first emphasizing economic orthodoxy, to be ...
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From Inward-to Outward-Oriented Growth: Paraguay in the 1980s

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W Baer… - Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, 1986 - JSTOR
SINCE THE 1950s, the development strategy of Paraguay has relied on export-led growth.
To accomplish this the government placed great emphasis on price and exchange rate
stability, first achieved in the late 1950s. Counting on limited resources, the country ...
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[CITATION] Latin America: privatization, property rights, and deregulation I

W Baer… - 1993 - … for the Bureau of Economic and …
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Foreign Investment in the Age of Globalization

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W Baer, GB Rangel - Latin American Business Review, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
Summary Brazil, along with many other emerging market countries has attracted a large
amount of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the last decade. The role FDI plays in the
modern Brazilian economy is different than in its previous incarnations. The latter included ...
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[CITATION] From Technology Absorption to Technology Production: Industrial Strategy and Technological Capacity in Brazil's Development Process

E Amann, W Baer… - 1998 - University of Illinois at Urbana- …
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[CITATION] Brazil and the challenge of economic reform

W Baer… - 1993 - Woodrow Wilson Center Pr
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Profit Illusion and Policy-Making in an Inflationary Economy

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W Baer… - Oxford economic papers, 1965 - JSTOR
INFLATION can cause the appearance of illusory profits in the accounts of firms. When the
inflation rate attains high proportions (eg over 20 per cent.), such profits can lead firms into
taking distorted production and investment decisions which could, under certain ...
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Growth with inequality: the cases of Brazil and Mexico

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W Baer - Latin American Research Review, 1986 - JSTOR
VIA ANN HEWLETT and RICHARD S. WEINERT.(Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of
Human Issues, 1982. Pp. 349. $30.00.) DEVELOPMENT ALTERNATIVES OF MEXICO:
BEYOND THE 1980S. By ROBERT E. LOONEY.(New York: Praeger, 1982. Pp. 268. ...
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Inflation and Economic Growth: An Interpretation of the Brazilian Case

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W Baer - Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1962 - JSTOR
The contemporary debate of economists concerned with development problems of South
America over the causes of inflation and policies to control it, the so-called" monetarist vs.
structuralist" debate, has concentrated on the problem of structural rigidities. It is claimed ...
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[CITATION] The Brazilian growth and development experience: 1964-1975

W Baer - Brazil in the Seventies (Washington, DC: American …, 1976
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Growth, efficiency, and equity: the impact of agribusiness and land reform in Brazil

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LA Abbey, W Baer… - Latin American Business Review, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT This paper first analyzes the nature of Brazil's modern agribusiness, how it
emerged, its relative importance within the economy, and its impact on the country's
distribution of wealth and income. It then examines the achievements of the Brazilian ...
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Health in the development process: The case of Brazil

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W Baer, A Campino… - The Quarterly Review of Economics …, 2001 - Elsevier
This article describes the health situation of Brazil's population, Brazil's health system, and
their implications for the development process. It is shown that although there were
substantial improvements in the last decades, Brazil still has an epidemiologic pattern ...
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Forms of external capital and economic development in Latin America: 1820-1997

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W Baer… - World Development, 1997 - Elsevier
This paper examines the risks and constraints of different forms of capital inflows and costs
of not honoring these obligations in Latin America from independence in the 1820s through
1997. The constraints and risks of inflows during each period are shown to depend on the ...
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The peripheral economy, its performance in isolation and with integration: The case of Portugal

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W Baer, APN Leite - Luso-Brazilian Review, 1992 - JSTOR
I. Introduction Policy-makers in any country desire to attain numerous goals. The most common
ones are: high rates of growth; efficiency; technological progress; equity; price stabil- ity;
socio-economic tranquility; and independence. The experience of many nations has ...
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[CITATION] Latin America in the post-import-substitution era

W Baer… - 1977 - Elsevier Science & Technology
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[PDF] As modificações no papel do Estado na economia brasileira

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W Baer, I KERSTENETZKY… - Rio de Janeiro: Pesquisa, …, 1973 - ppe.ipea.gov.br
A atual preponderância do estado na economia brasileira não é o resultado de ura
esquema cuidadosamente concebido. Decorre, em grande parte, de numerosas
circunstâncias que, em sua maioria, forçaram o Governo a intervir de maneira crescente ...
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[CITATION] The Paraguayan economic condition: past and current obstacles to economic modernization

W Baer - Inter-American Economic Affairs, 1975
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27. Import Substitution and Industrialization in Latin America: Experiences and Interpretations

W Baer - The Struggle for economic development: readings in …, 1983 - books.google.com
Throughout most of the Fifties and Sixties many Latin American governments adopted Import
Substitution Industrialization (ISI) as their principal method to achieve economic growth and
socio-economic modernization. By the opening of the Seventies, however, there was ...
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Neo-liberalism and market concentration in Brazil: The emergence of a contradiction?

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E Amann, W Baer - The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2008 - Elsevier
This article examines the degree of market and firm competitiveness that developed in Brazil
in the 15 years since the introduction of neo-liberal policies. In particular, it evaluates the
extent to which trade liberalization and the freeing-up of domestic markets has resulted in ...
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[CITATION] Patterns of Brazilian economic growth

W Baer… - 1966
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[CITATION] The Brazilian Economic Miracle: The Issues and the Literature

W Baer - Bulletin of the Society for Latin American Studies, 1976
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Privatization and equity in Brazil and Russia

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W Baer, JT Bang - Kyklos, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
This paper uses cross–national data from happiness surveys, jointly with data on per capita
income and pollution, to examine how self–reported well–being varies with prosperity and
environmental conditions. This approach allows us to show that citizens care about ...
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[CITATION] Privatization, regulation and income distribution in Brazil1

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Privatization, regulation and income distribution in Brazil1. Werner Baer and Donald V. Coes.
The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2001, vol. 41, issue 5, pages 609-620. ...
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[CITATION] Brazil's drifting economy: stagnation and inflation during 1987–1996

W Baer… - What kind of democracy, 1998
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[CITATION] American capital and Brazilian nationalism

W Baer… - The Yale Review, 1964
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[CITATION] The role of the state in United States regional development

W Baer… - Revista Econômica do Nordeste, Fortaleza, 1999
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The changing nature of development banking in Brazil

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W Baer… - Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, 1980 - JSTOR
Pior to the mid-1960s, there was little concern in Brazil for the relative size of different
ownership sectors-state, domestic private and multinational (Baer et al., 1973; Baer et al.,
1977). The main policy objective had been the promotion of importsubstitution- ...
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Industrialization in Latin America: successes and failures

W Baer - Journal of Economic Education, 1984 - JSTOR
Baer looks at industrialization in Latin America and how it has influenced employment and
the distribution of income. He also comments on the role of multinationals in this process
and contrasts growth in Latin America and Asia.
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[CITATION] Industrialization and Economic Development in Brazil, Homewood, Illinois: Richard D. Irwin

W Baer - 1965 - Inc
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Multiple Exchange Rates and the Attainment of Multiple Policy Objectives

W Baer… - Economica, 1962 - JSTOR
Since the Second World War, multiple exchange rates have been widely used in countries,
especially underdeveloped countries, experiencing balance-of-payments difficulties. 2 A
very wide range of combinations of export and import duties and subsidies can be effected ...
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[PDF] Austerity under Different Political Regimes: The Case of Brazil

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W Baer, D Biller, CT McDonald - Paying the Costs of …, 1989 - lasa.international.pitt.edu
During a prolonged period of inflation many distortions will have appeared, which may make
continued long-term growth increasingly difficult. Investments may have declined and/or
been applied to nonproductive areas. Savings may have declined as capital markets ...
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[CITATION] Some observations on the Brazilian inflation

W Baer… - Inflation and Growth in Latin America, 1964
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[CITATION] Introduction: the economic and political costs of austerity

H Handelman… - Paying the Costs of Austerity in Latin America. Boulder: …, 1989
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[BOOK] Brazil under Lula: economy, politics, and society under the worker-president

W Baer - 2009 - books.google.com
This collection assesses the performance of Brazil's Lula da Silva, the only working-class
president in Latin American history, in his first term. The contributing scholars deal with
Lula's style of governance; the type of economic and social policies he adopted, in both ...
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[BOOK] Foreign direct investment in Latin America: Its changing nature at the turn of the century

W Baer… - 2001 - books.google.com
Examine the changing nature of foreign investments in Latin America! Generously enhanced
with easy-to-understand charts, tables, and graphs, this book covers the ins and outs of
foreign direct investment in the established and emerging markets of Latin America. In ...
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[CITATION] The World Bank group and the process of socio-economic development in the Third World

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W Baer - World Development, 1974 - econpapers.repec.org
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The World Bank group and the process of socio-economic development in the Third World.
Werner Baer. World Development, 1974, vol. 2, issue 6, pages 1-10. ...
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Environmental aspects of Brazil's economic development (I)

W Baer… - Luso-Brazilian Review, 1995 - JSTOR
Este ensaio aborda as diversas faces do impacto ambiental resultante do desenvolvimento
econômico brasileiro. O trabalho começa com uma descrição histórica do desenvolvimento
do país, ressaltando a tradição de exploração descuidada dos recursos naturais, ...
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[CITATION] Brazil's Rocky Economic Road to Democracy'

W Baer - The Political Economy of Brazil: Public Policies of an …, 1990
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[CITATION] The spatial formation of the Brazilian economy: historical overview and future trends

EA Haddad, GJD Hewings… - Geographia …, 1999 - POLISH STATE COMMITTEE FOR …
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From Privatization to Re-nationalization: What went Wrong with Privatizations in Argentina?

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W Baer… - Oxford Development Studies, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
The privatization process in Argentina is analysed. Beginning with a very ambitious
programme, a weak regulatory environment was created because of lack of experience and
as a result of the lobbying power of the newly created enterprises. Numerous exclusive ...
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[CITATION] The Resurgence of Inflation in Latin America

W Baer… - 1987 - Pergamon Press
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[CITATION] The Macroeconomic Record of the Lula Administration, the Roots of Brazil's inequality, and Attempts to Overcome Them

E Amann, W Baer - Brazil Under Lula: Economy, Politics, and Society …, 2009
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[CITATION] Export Diversification and the New Protectionism: The Experience of Latin America

W Baer, M Gillis - NBER Books, 2008 - ideas.repec.org
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[CITATION] Export diversification and the new protectionism: the experiences of Latin America

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[CITATION] Observações sobre o Plano Trienal

W Baer - Revista Brasileira de Economia, 1962 - ideas.repec.org
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[PDF] Neoliberalismo e distribuição de renda na América Latina

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W Baer… - Revista de Economia Política, 1997 - rep.org.br
This paper reviews the principal neo-liberal policy measures instituted in Latin America in
the last decade and their impact on equity. It first emphasizes the difficulty of separating the
impact of liberalization measures from the necessary fiscal adjustments of the 1980s, and ...
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