Werner Baer
Biographic Data
| ID | 347545 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Werner Baer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Werner |
| FAMILY NAME | Baer |
| SIGNATURE | BAER W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 81 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 176 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 75 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Anti-Poverty Transfers and Poverty Reduction
This chapter examines the role that public policy initiatives—specifically anti-poverty transfers—have played in the reduction of poverty and inequality in Brazil. A number of anti-poverty initiatives are considered in turn, and not just the widely known Bolsa Familia conditional cash transfer program. The analysis establishes that such transfers—including conditional cash transfers—have proved surprisingly effective, even helping to tackle long-…
The Oxford Handbook of the Brazilian Economy
Brazil constitutes a globally vital but troubled economy. It accounts for the largest GDP in Latin America and ranks among the world’s largest exporters of critical commodities including iron ore, soya, coffee, and beef. In recent years Brazil’s global economic importance has been magnified by a surge in both outward and inward foreign direct investment. This has served to further internationalize what has been historically a relatively closed ec…
Oxford Handbook of the Brazilian Economy
The Colonial Economy
The chapter deals with characteristics of the Brazilian colonial period (from 1500 to independence from Portugal in 1822) that have exercised a significant influence on later developments. Three aspects of the institutional framework of Portuguese colonization are emphasized: the relations between the colonial government and the private sector; the pattern of access to land by colonists; and the widespread use of slave labor. It is argued that co…
Changes in Income Distribution in Brazil
Income inequality in Brazil, already high, increased after the military coup of 1964 and remained very high even after democratization in the 1980s. It decreased substantially in the period 2001-2014, after inflation was controlled. The Gini index of the per capita household income dropped from 0.594 in 2001 to 0.513 in 2014. The determinants of this decline in inequality are analyzed considering the components of that income and how each one aff…
Corruption Scandals, the Evolution of Anti-Corruption Institutions, and Their Impact on Brazil's Economy
This chapter considers corruption in the Brazilian context and the impact this may have had on economic performance. It is first suggested that a corruption scandal can create a window of opportunity for reforms, such that a government's action or inaction in the aftermath of a scandal may signify its commitment to institutional change. The chapter assesses the impacts of past scandals and responsive institutional reforms on perceptions of corrup…
Brazil as an emerging economy: A New Economic Miracle
This article shows that abundant resources and blind faith in an optimistic future cannot result in sustainable growth in Brazil. There are great deficiencies in various areas which make sustained high growth rates almost impossible to achieve, such as the low investment ratio, deficiencies in creating human capital, high interest rates leading to an uncompetitive exchange rate and a lack of infrastructural development
Brazil under Lula
This book offers the first multidisciplinary analysis of the impact of the government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his Workers' Party on Brazilian economy and society, as he begins his s
Neoliberalismo e concentração de mercado no Brasil: A emergência de uma contradição
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Anchors Away: The Cost and Benefits of Brazil’s Devaluation
Ordnungsprobleme der Weltwirtschaft
Neoliberalism and its Consequences in Brazil
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 by way of reducing income inequality and poverty. The article concludes by outlining the policy options which might be adopted to tackle this critical problem
The Illusion of Stability: The Brazilian Economy Under Cardoso
The end of the Asian Myth: Why were the Experts Fooled
What Kind of Democracy? What Kind of Market: Latin America in the Age of Neoliberalism
Forms of external capital and economic development in Latin America: 1820–1997
Neoliberalism and income distribution in Latin America
Neoliberalismo e distribuição de renda na América Latina
Este artigo analisa as principais medidas de política neoliberal instituídas na América Latina na última década e seu impacto sobre a equidade. Ele primeiro enfatiza a dificuldade de separar o impacto das medidas de liberalização dos ajustes fiscais necessários da década de 1980, e seus efeitos de transição versus longo prazo, e então coloca os movimentos observados na distribuição em um contexto global e histórico. A segunda parte coloca várias …
Brazilian Industrialists and Democratic Change . Leigh A. Payne Engines of Growth: The State and Transnational Companies in Brazil . Helen Shapiro
Changing paradigms: Changing interpretations of the public sector in Latin America's economies
The Brazilian Economy: Growth and Development
Preface Historical Perspective Introduction and Overview Historical Perspective Early Industrial Growth The Post-World War II Industrialization Drive: 1946-61 Stagnation and Boom: Brazil in the 1960s and 1970s From Adjustment to External Shocks to the Debt Crisis: 1973-85 The Resurgence of Inflation in Brazil: 1974-86 The Decline and Fall of Brazil's Cruzado Brazil's Drifting Economy: Stagnation and Inflation During 1987-93 The Illusion of Stabil…
Ideas and Institutions: Developmentalism in Brazil and Argentina . Kathryn Sikkink Unavoidable Industrial Restructuring in Latin America . Fernando Fajnzylber
As políticas norte-americanas e a dívida e comércio da América Latina
Este artigo enfoca a posição contraditória dos Estados Unidos em suas políticas econômicas para a América Latina. Ao pressionar a região para manter o serviço da dívida, o governo dos EUA deixou os países latino-americanos com pouca escolha a não ser produzir grandes superávits comerciais, pois os fluxos voluntários de capital para a região se esgotaram na década de 1980. A insistência simultânea dos EUA, no entanto, de que os países latino-ameri…
The Political Economy of Central America since 1920. Victor Bulmer-Thomas
Paying the Costs of Austerity in Latin America
Import Substitution and Industrialization in Latin America: Experiences and Interpretations
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 is considerable doubt about ISI's success in solving the region's development problems. In many countries the possibilities for further import-substitution had disappeared. Industrial grow…
The changing role of the State in the Brazilian economy
The end of the Asian Myth: Why were the Experts Fooled
The Illusion of Stability: The Brazilian Economy Under Cardoso
Neoliberalism and income distribution in Latin America
Expansion of the economic frontier: Paraguayan growth in the 1970s
The Decline and Fall of Brazil's Cruzado
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 stabilization policies. Although at first the Plano Cruzado seemed to succeed dramatically in eliminating inflation without recessionary side effects, it failed by the end of 1986, as inflation…
Neoliberalism and its Consequences in Brazil
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 by way of reducing income inequality and poverty. The article concludes by outlining the policy options which might be adopted to tackle this critical problem
Regional Inequality and Economic Growth in Brazil
Paying the Costs of Austerity in Latin America
The Brazilian boom 1968–72: An explanation and interpretation
Inflation and Growth in Latin America
The Economics of Prebisch and Ecla
Anchors Away: The Cost and Benefits of Brazil’s Devaluation
Brazil as an emerging economy: A New Economic Miracle
This article shows that abundant resources and blind faith in an optimistic future cannot result in sustainable growth in Brazil. There are great deficiencies in various areas which make sustained high growth rates almost impossible to achieve, such as the low investment ratio, deficiencies in creating human capital, high interest rates leading to an uncompetitive exchange rate and a lack of infrastructural development
Toward a service-oriented growth strategy
The Inflation Controversy in Latin America: A Survey
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 Latin American inflations, have preoccupied at one time or another almost every economist who has worked in the region. More than any other economic problem, inflation has aroused strong passion…
The resurgence of inflation in Brazil, 1974–1986
The trouble with index-linking: Reflections on the recent Brazilian Experience
The Changing Nature of Development Banking in Brazil
Prior 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 import-substitution-industrialization (ISI). Because the Brazilian domestic private sector did not have the technological and financial means to create new industries with a high technology content or to …
Changes in Income Distribution in Brazil
Income inequality in Brazil, already high, increased after the military coup of 1964 and remained very high even after democratization in the 1980s. It decreased substantially in the period 2001-2014, after inflation was controlled. The Gini index of the per capita household income dropped from 0.594 in 2001 to 0.513 in 2014. The determinants of this decline in inequality are analyzed considering the components of that income and how each one aff…
Changing paradigms: Changing interpretations of the public sector in Latin America's economies
The Brazilian Economy: Growth and Development
Preface Historical Perspective Introduction and Overview Historical Perspective Early Industrial Growth The Post-World War II Industrialization Drive: 1946-61 Stagnation and Boom: Brazil in the 1960s and 1970s From Adjustment to External Shocks to the Debt Crisis: 1973-85 The Resurgence of Inflation in Brazil: 1974-86 The Decline and Fall of Brazil's Cruzado Brazil's Drifting Economy: Stagnation and Inflation During 1987-93 The Illusion of Stabil…
Paying the Costs of Austerity in Latin America
The International Economic Relations of a Small Country: The Case of Paraguay
This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://www.jstor.org/stable/1153932?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
The Promoting and the Financing of the Suez Canal
This timely account of the hunching of the Suez Canal project reveals both sides of the coin of innovation. It is, on the one hand, a study of the character and methods of one of the most famous innovators of the nineteenth century. Ferdinand DeLesseps was not a politician, a financier, an engineer, a promoter (in the common sense of the word), or a businessman. Yet he succeeded brilliantly in a venture requiring consummate mastery of all these p…
Multiple Exchange Rates and the Attainment of Multiple Policy Objectives
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 by such a system; in practice, policy-makers develop a structure of rates by a process of trial and error. In this article we examine the conditions necessary for the simultaneous attai…
The Economics of Prebisch and Ecla
Inflation and Economic Growth: An Interpretation of the Brazilian Case
Brazil: Inflation and Economic Efficiency
The Economics of Prebisch and Ecla: Reply
Inflation and Economic Growth: Reply
Regional Inequality and Economic Growth in Brazil
Inflation and Growth in Latin America
Transportation and Inflation: A Study of Irrational Policy Making in Brazil
Problemas de urbanización en América Latina.Luis Calderon , Jaime Dorselaer , Arturo Calle
Industrialization and Economic Development in Brazil
Industrialization and Economic Development in Brazil
The Inflation Controversy in Latin America: A Survey
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 Latin American inflations, have preoccupied at one time or another almost every economist who has worked in the region. More than any other economic problem, inflation has aroused strong passion…
História econômica do Brasil
Steel and Economic Development: Capital-Output Ratios in Three Latin American Steel Plants
Economic and Political Development: A Theoretical Approach and a Brazilian Case Study. Helio Jaguaribe
The Development of the Brazilian Steel Industry
Import Substitution and Industrialization in Latin America: Experiences and Interpretations
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 is considerable doubt about ISI's success in solving the region's development problems. In many countries the possibilities for further import-substitution had disappeared. Industrial grow…
Contemporary Brazil: Issues in Economic and Political Development
Contemporary Brazil: Issues in Economic and Political Development
The changing role of the State in the Brazilian economy
The Brazilian boom 1968–72: An explanation and interpretation
The Development of the Brazilian Steel Industry
The Structure of Protection in Developing Countries. Bela Balassa
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