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João Manoel Pinho de Mello Secretary Secratariat for Promotion of Productivity and Competition Advocacy Ministério da Fazenda
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Productivity: an agenda for long-term growth
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Background
• Looking backwards to set up the context for looking forward
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Brazil v. USA (Relative GDP per capita, PPP in US constant dollars)
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Background
- No convergence
• Why?
• Looking at the mechanics…
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Four ways to grow
1. Increase the number of people working (labor force)
2. Increase human capital
3. Increase the stock of capital
4. Improve the mix of 1, 2 and 3 (so-called Total Factor Productivity or TFP)
Four sources of growth
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Factors’ v. TFP contribution to growth De Mello, Duarte and Dutz (forthcoming)
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Figure 4.1.: Brazil's Economic Performance (1960–2014) (Percent)
Decomposition of output-side real GDP at current purchasing power parity
Production Growth Capital Growth Labor Growth TFP Growth
Source: Fernandez-Arias (2017) Note: TFP = total factor productivity
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Figure 4.2.: Labor productivity - Output per Employed Person (2016 US$)
Brazil Chile Mexico China India Colombia Korea, Rep. Of
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Brazil v. Emerging Countries Synthetic Control Group Exercise
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The diagnosis
• The first three factor contributed to growth. Relative to the US
1. We put people to work, especially after 2002
2. We increased human capital
3. We increased physical capital
• But the mixture (TFP) did terribly …
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Source: Caselli (2015) and author’ calculations. Note: counterfactual refers to output per worker that countries would have had if their TFP were equal to that of the US
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Actual Counterfactual
World Bank: Brazil productivity flagship report:
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Diagnosis
• The productivity issue: inter sector or intra sector?
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Source: Bazzi, Muendler and Rickey (2014)
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Distribution of Firms by Labor Productivity
Source: Barbosa Filho & Corrêa (2016)
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The diagnosis
• Decomposition exercise (De Mello, Duarte et Dutz, forthcoming):
1. Holding intra-sectoral productivity constant, replicate other country’s structure
2. Holding the structure constant, replicate the other country’s sectoral productivity
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The diagnosis Counterfactual exercise 1: reproducing other countries’ sector structure
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Counterfactual 1 - Productivity Growth (%) Value added per person employed in 2014 (PPP)
Data: WIOD Socio Economic Accounts
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The diagnosis
Counterfactual exercise 2: reproducing other countries’ productivity per sector
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Diagnosis
• Forensic economics: productivity issue mainly an intrasectoral problema
• Calls for horizontal policies
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Centralized (mis)allocation of capital • Bad de facto institution (Bankruptcy Law, for example)
• Labor market legislation distorting business decisions
• Excessive protection, captive demand , excessive local content
• Lack of infrastructure
• Tax system distorting business decisions • Excessive bureaucracy
• Excess of state ownership of assets
• Closed economy
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Centralized (mis)allocation of capital: earmarked credit
• Some figures from Pazarbasioglu et al (2016)
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Government interventions
Central Bank interventions
Public Admin
Public Admin
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Quantities
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BNDES Outstanding credit
R$ 680 bi * (21%)
Households
Firms
The fiscal sector
Households
Firms
Savers Borrowers
Public owned commercial
banks (Caixa, Banco do
Brasil, etc.)
Special funds (FGTS, FAT,
Constitutional funds etc.)
Private Commercial
Banks
16% 9%
9% 5%
9% 5%
13% 7%
9% 5%
37% 20%
24% 13%
Public Admin
% of outstanding
credit
% of GDP
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Cost of Funds and Interest Rates
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TJLP
SELIC rate
TR rate + fixed rate
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Centralized (mis)allocation of capital
• The perennial and the recent increase
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BNDES Outstanding credit
R$ 680 bi * (21%)
Households
Firms
The fiscal sector
Households
Firms
Savers Borrowers
Public owned commercial
banks (Caixa, Banco do
Brasil, etc.)
Special funds (FGTS, FAT,
Constitutional funds etc.)
Private Commercial
Banks
1.5% 0.5%
14% 5%
15% 5%
9% 2%
9% 3%
24% 8%
30% 10%
Public Admin
% of outstanding
credit
% of GDP
2007
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BNDES Outstanding credit
R$ 680 bi * (21%)
Households
Firms
The fiscal sector
Households
Firms
Savers Borrowers
Public owned commercial
banks (Caixa, Banco do
Brasil, etc.)
Special funds (FGTS, FAT,
Constitutional funds etc.)
Private Commercial
Banks
16% 9%
9% 5%
9% 5%
13% 7%
9% 5%
37% 20%
24% 13%
Public Admin
% of outstanding
credit
% of GDP
2015
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Source: Brazilian Central Bank Time Series (August/2016)
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Distribution of credit between Earmarked and Non-earmarked
68% Non-earmarked
32% Earmarked
49.9% Earmarked
50.1% Non-earmarked
Sep/08
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Centralized (mis)allocation of capital
• Direct and implied fiscal cost of credit subsidies in 2015: 3.5% of GDP (Pazarbasioglu et al, 2016)
• Total government expenditure in
• education: 5% of GDP
• health: 4% of GDP
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Centralized (mis)allocation of capital
• National Champions (meatpacking giant JBS just the leading example), both through equity and debt
• Subsidized credit for service exports (Brazilian contractors in LAC and Africa)
• Programa de Sustentação do Investimento (PSI): ProCaminhoneiro with 2.5% nominal rates
• FINAME and local content
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Centralized (mis)allocation of capital
• Policy intervention: Taxa de Longo Prazo, which changes in the funding costs of FAT to a market-based rate with less implicit subsidy
• Bill signed by the president
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Centralized (mis)allocation of capital
• Policy intervention: acceleration of BNDES’ repayment to treasury
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Centralized (mis)allocation of capital
• Consequences of policy: crowd-in of private markets
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Treasury transfers to BNDES (billion R$)
Data: BNDES * Except for MP nº505/2010 (Petrobras capitalization)
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Capital Markets: Recent Performance
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Capital Market Performance (million R$) Domestic Market
Corporate Bonds (non financial sector) Promissory Notes Corporate Bonds (financial sector) CRA CRI FIDC IPO Offering Follow-on Offering
Data: Anbima
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Corporate Bonds (non financial sector) Promissory Notes
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CRI FIDC
IPO Offering Follow-on Offering
FII
Data: Anbima *Jan-May 2017 and Jan-May 2018
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GRÁFICO 20
Fonte: ANBIMA, BNDES e B3 - Elaboração CEMEC
Como se observa no Gráfico 21, a soma dos desembolsos do BNDES e dos recursos captados no
mercado de capitais (ações e dívida) teve crescimento da ordem de 40% no ano terminado em
2018 (R$ 285 bilhões) em relação ao observado em 2016 (R$ 203 bilhões), dado que o aumento
de recursos do mercado de capitais (R$ 105 bilhões) mais que compensou a redução dos
desembolsos do BNDES (-R$ 23 bilhões). No período mais longo, a partir de 2014, observa-se
uma queda de 15,4% nesse total, caindo de R$ 337 bilhões para R$ 285 bilhões. Trata-se de um
resultado da atuação de vários fatores, que combinam a queda de demanda de recursos de
médio e longo prazo associada com à redução dos investimentos, a redução do crédito
subsidiado e aumento das taxas do BNDES, compensados parcialmente pela forte redução do
custo de capital no mercado de capitais que ocorreu ao longo de 2017 e até o primeiro trimestre
de 2018.
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Capital Markets: Recent Performance
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Corporate Bonds (non financial sector) - Average Length Domestic Market
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Capital Markets: Recent Performance
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Funding Costs (% a.a.)
Cemec/Fipe
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No Gráfico 08 é possível observar que um movimento análogo ao do mercado de debêntures
ocorreu com as taxas médias de emissão das notas promissórias. Essas taxas que se
aproximavam de 7,5% a.a., com spread pouco superior a 100 b.p. em relação ao CDI, saltaram
para 9,3% a.a. Entretanto as taxas de juros de notas promissórias continuam em nível que
equivale praticamente à metade das taxas de juros médias cobradas em operações de crédito
para de capital de giro, que aliás também apresentam alguma elevação no final desse período.
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Centralized (mis)allocation of capital
• Policy intervention: list of interventions to improve the performance of non-earmarked credit markets and capital markets
• Agenda BC+ (portability, increasing competition on means of payment, extension of access to SCR to two years, European covered bonds for mortgages, etc)
• Positive information credit bureaus
• Infrastructure for a guarantee central for receivables and and financial assets; reform of the receivables’ law)
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Bad de facto institutions
• Example: Bankruptcy Law
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Bad de facto institutions (Bankruptcy Law, for example)
• Bankruptcy Law (2005): good law, room for improvement in the judiciary. From the Doing Business:
• Recovery rate (cents on the dollar)
• Brazil: 16. LAC average: 31
• Time to resolve
• Brazil: 4 years. LAC average: 2.4 years
• Cost (% of the estate)
• Brazil: 12%. LAC average: 14.5%
• Position in the DB: 67th (but de facto probably worse)
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Policy intervention: overhaul of the Bankruptcy Code
• Bill proposal in Congress
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Labor market legislation distorting business decisions
• Labor legislation from the 1940s, inspired by Mussolini’s labor law
• State regulates and mediates almost all dimensions of the employee-employer relationship
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Labor market legislation distorting business decisions
• Social security design incentivizes early termination of labor relationship
• Judicialization and ex-post negotiation before judges
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Labor market legislation distorting business decisions
• Gerard and Gonzaga (2016)
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Labor market legislation distorting business decisions
• Camargo and Gonzaga (2015)
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Why has productivity stalled?
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• Labor market legislation distorting business decisions
• Camargo and Gonzaga
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Labor market legislation: excessive judicialization
• 2017: 2.8 million new labor lawsuits (740,000 executed)
• US: in 2015, 91,000 law suits (statistic from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Policy intervention: Labor Code Reform, outsourcing law, migration code
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• Policy intervention: Labor Code Reform
• Consequences
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Fonte: CNJ
Elaboração: Casa Civil/PR
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Excessive protection, captive demand
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Excessive protection, captive demand. Two examples:
1. Local content policies in O&G and Petrobras
2. Automotive Regime (Inovar – Auto)
3. Finame (local content for the machinery industry through BNDES financing)
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• Excessive protection, captive demand: local content in O&G
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Excessive protection, captive demand: local content in O&G
• The O&G sector paid a heavy cost
• Petrobras’s production increased much less than expected
• Expected by Petrobras in 2015: 3.07 million barrels/day. Actual production: 2.13
• Frequent delays in delivering platforms
• Since 2010, Petrobras commissioned 10 platforms from local suppliers. None on time. Delays over three years are common.
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Employment: Shipbuilding Industry Construction, Maintenance and Repair of Floating Structures
Source: RAIS
33 thousand jobs
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples • Excessive protection, captive demand: local content in O&G.
• Difference in projected and actual Petrobras’s production between 2012
and 2017 • Example: for 2015 3.07 million barrels/day. Actual: 2.13
• Attribute half the shortcoming to the LC policy
• Unit cost per barrel: USD35
• Jobs in the shipbuilding industry: 33,000
• Cost per job: USD 422,000
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Excessive protection, captive demand: local content in O&G.
• Policy intervention: reduce and rationalize the local content policy in O&G
• Four categories, local content between 25% and 40%
• Consequences:
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples • Excessive protection, captive demand: auto sector policy
• Inovar-Auto: a 30 p.p. increase in “tariff” (starting from 30p.p. tariff)
• Useless the assembler has a certain level of local content in auto-
parts
• Number of assemblers increased to 22 (World Bank study suggests 7 at most in Brazil)
• Innovation and energy efficiency have improved less than in peers
• August 2017: several features of program deemed illegal under WTO rules
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Excessive protection, captive demand: auto sector policy
• Policy intervention: overhaul the program
• Rota 2030
• Cut additional 30p.p. protection
• Reduce (almost to zero) the local content component
• Only direct taxation-based R&D incentives (50% lower than Inovar-Auto)
• Reduce import tariffs on auto-parts
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Excessive protection, captive demand: FINAME and local content for the machinery industry
• Policy intervention: TLP and TJLP
• Reduction of local contents for FINAME in the new BNDES operational policy
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Tax system distorting business decisions
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Tax system distorting business decisions
• Brazil has four taxes (or “contributions”) on production and consumption of goods and services
• Imposto sobre Produtos Industrializados (IPI), Imposto sobre Circulação de Bens e Serviços (ICMS), Imposto sobre Serviços (ISS) and PIS/Cofins (firms’ revenues)
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Tax system distorting business decisions
• ICMS is a IVA-type like, state-level tax
• Very imperfect, depends on the origin of production
• “Tax wars” distort location decisions
• PIS/Cofins has two different regimes (cumulative and non-cumulative)
• Multiplicity of rates and no less than 40 Special Regimes
• Produces major distortions
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Tax system distorting business decisions
• The construction sector is illustrative
• If value is added at site, tax incidence is ISS (5% maximum), PIS/Cofins cumulative (3.65%)
• If value is added at a plant (prefabricated): ICMS (12% in SP), PIS/Cofins cumulative (9.75%) and IPI (rates varies a lot)
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Tax system distorting business decisions
• Huge judicialization
• R$ 4 trillion in tax litigation
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Fazenda Productivity as the key to sustainable growth
Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Tax system distorting business decisions
• Policy intervention: agenda on simplification
• Revision of tax compliance procedures
• Local-level, federally supported revision of procedures to open and close firms
• Trade facilitation
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Excessive bureaucracy
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Fazenda Productivity as the key to sustainable growth
Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Excessive bureaucracy • Tax system extremely hard to comply with (judicialization)
• Excessive difficulty in opening and closing firms
• Burdensome notary system
• Burdensome patenting system (judicialization)
• Burdensome licensing system (judicialization)
• Burdensome expropriation system (judicialization)
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Fazenda Productivity as the key to sustainable growth
Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Excessive bureaucracy
• Policy interventions: agenda on simplification and reducing bureaucratic burden
• Notary certification of signatures, Electronic drivers’ licenses, etc
• Trade facilitation
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Trade openness
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Tariffs on Capital Goods – Comparação Internacional Economias Emergentes – “EAGLES” (Média Ponderada “MFN”)
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Tarifas sobre Bens de Capital – Comparação Internacional Países Desenvolvidos – membros da OCDE (Média Ponderada “MFN”)
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Fonte: WITS
BRASIL
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O custo de aquisição de bens de capital é 44% mais alto no Brasil do que nos pares emergentes
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Índice de Preços para Bens de Capital Mundo = 100 (em 2011)
Fonte: ICP – Banco Mundial Elaboração: Seprac/MF
Média dos emergentes (99)
Brasil: 44% mais alto
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O custo de aquisição de bens de capital é 44% mais alto no Brasil do que nos pares emergentes
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Média dos emergentes (99)
Brasil: 44% mais alto
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Além de elevado, o custo de aquisição de bens de capital no Brasil subiu muito em relação aos pares emergentes
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Fazenda Productivity as the key to sustainable growth
Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Trade openness
• Slow but steady reduction on the (ab)use of trade defense mechanisms
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Fazenda Productivity as the key to sustainable growth
Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Excessive state ownership of assets
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Why has productivity stalled?
Mechanisms/Examples
• Excessive state ownership of assets
• Policy intervention
• Energy transmission
• Airports
• Lottery
• Eletrobras
• Mint
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Good news
Privatization and Concessions
• Energy transmission
• Airports
• Lottery
• Eletrobras
• Mint
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Productivity agenda
• Create conditions to compete
• Expose to competition
• Reduce factors that induce distortions
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Productivity agenda
• Change in the mindset of the private-public interactions
• From rent-seeking to problem solving
• “Off the table” at the margin: tax exemptions, subsidies, demand guarantees (e.g., local content), protection
• Scope for intervention is ample, but a different type
• Social returns > private returns (in line with BNDES new operational policy)
• Coordination and appropriation problem
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Productivity agenda
Long and hard road
• Resistance is concentrated
• Results accrue slowly overtime
• No silver bullet but a roadmap
Deputy Finance Minister João Manoel Pinho de Mello
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