Naércio Aquino Menezes-Filho

TL;DR: The expansion of the SUS has allowed Brazil to rapidly address the changing health needs of the population, with dramatic upscaling of health service coverage in just three decades, but analysis of future scenarios suggests the urgent need to address lingering geographical inequalities, insufficient funding, and suboptimal private sector-public sector collaboration.

TL;DR: Worker effects are important predictors of labor turnover as mentioned in this paper, showing that foreign import penetration and tariff reductions trigger worker displacements but that neither comparative-advantage industries nor exporters absorb displaced workers for years.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of public expenditures on the probability of mayors' reelection in Brazilian municipal elections was analyzed using a logit fixed-effects model and the results suggest that mayors who spend more during their terms of office increase their own reelection or of a successor of the same political party.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors track individual workers across employers and industries after Brazil's trade liberalization in the 1990s and show that foreign import penetration and tariff reduction trigger worker displacements but that neither comparative-advantage industries nor exporters absorb displaced workers for years.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a unique new data set on manufacturing firms in Brazil and India to estimate production functions, augmented by information and communications technology (ICT), and found a strong positive association between ICT capital and productivity in both countries that is robust to several different specification tests.