Tag: public sector
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Long-term finance and BNDES tapering in Brazil
Otaviano Canuto & Matheus Cavallari One major policy issue in Brazil is how to boost productivity, while following a path of fiscal consolidation that will take at least a decade to bring the public-debt-to-GDP ratio back to 2000 levels (Canuto, 2016a). The productivity-boosting agenda includes not only the implementation of a full range of structural…
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Disrupting government: Turning to innovation in its own back yard
© Thinkstock Hubs of innovation inevitably have a key factor – a geographic advantage or access to resources that make them uniquely positioned to be the renowned centers they are. For example, Boston is the home of some of the nation’s top medical programs (think Harvard and MIT), making it a hub for healthcare and pharmaceuticals.…
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Open innovation in the public sector
Learning from others’ experience True citizen expansion implies enriching the elements that lead to a rational synthesis generated by both technical and non-technical knowledge. For instance, the Brazilian platform CidadeDemocrática is an example of collective participation that takes advantage of the network and turns citizen demands into primary sources of information and solution to problems. Another model…
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