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Oecd Territorial Reviews: Brazil 2013 Oecd Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

This review, which draws on data and comparative perspectives from OECD countries, highlights challenges that Brazil will need to tackle, including those related to fiscal arrangements among the sub-national governments, building administrative capacity at the local level, and fostering cross-sectoral co-ordination in federal programming

Table of Content :

Acronyms and abbreviations
Assessment and recommendations
Chapter 1. Regional trends and development in Brazil
-Introduction
-Macroeconomic trends
-Regional development gaps in Brazil
-Assessing the performance of Brazilian regions and links to national growth
-Tapping growth potential in Brazils regions
-Key policy and governance challenges
-Bibliography
-Annex 1. A1. OECD regional classification and regional typology
-Annex 1. A2. Performance of Brazilian regions
-Annex 1. A3. Regional specialisation and GDP per capita growth
-Annex 1. A4. Value added by industry
-Annex 1. A5. Socio-economic outcomes 
Chapter 2. Combining growth and social inclusion: The contribution of regional policies 
-Introduction
-Mapping federal policies for regional development: Actions with explicit and implicit
territorial targets
-The rebirth of explicit regional development policies in Brazil
-Public infrastructure investment: The challenge of closing the gap in lagging regions
-Social programmes, innovation and competitiveness as drivers of regional development
-Conclusion
-Bibliography
-Annex 2. A1. Bolsa Familia, a mix of policy complementarities
-Annex 2. A2. EMBRAPA, a mix of policy comlementarities
-Annex 2. A3. Matrix of policy complementarities
Chapter 3. Multi-level governance for more effective regional development policies
-Introduction
-How regional development policy could help Brazil harness its national strategy of growth with reduction of social and regional disparities
-Dealing with sub-national governments financial and political autonomy
-Overcoming a multi-dimensional fragmentation of policies
-Creating information and building capacity at sub-national level, increasing citizen participation
-Conclusion
-Bibliography
-Annex 3. A1. Social, infrastructure and economic indicators of Brazil
-Annex 3. A2. Inter-governmental grants in Brazil
-Annex 3. A3. Share of sub-national governments in tax revenues in OECD countries
-Annex 3. A4. Alllocation of resonsibilities across levels of governement in Brazil
-Annex 3. A5. General government accounts of Brazil
-Annex 3. A6. Share of different taxes in revenues acorss levels of government in Brazil
-Annex 3. A7. Revenue mix by state in Brazil