Reports

Measuring Tax Support for R&D and Innovation - country profiles

The 2017 OECD R&D tax incentive country profiles provide detailed information on the design features and cost of tax provisions used by countries to incentivise R&D performance by businesses, reporting on both long-term and recent trends.

Governance Frameworks to Counter Illicit Trade

Economic Survey of Brazil 2018

Over the past two decades, strong growth combined with remarkable social progress have made Brazil one of the world’s leading economies, despite the long recession that began in 2014 and from which the economy is now slowly emerging.

Water Charges in Brazil - The Ways Forward

How's life in Brazil?

This note presents selected findings based on the set of well-being indicators published in How's Life? 2017.

Brazil's Federal Court of Accounts - Insight and Foresight for Better Governance

OECD Employment Outlook 2017 - Key findings for Brazil

Between 2007 and 2014 Brazil sustained high employment rates, well above the OECD average. The country has historically high participation rates for men and women, as well a relatively low unemployment rate.

OECD Science, Technology and Innovation Outlook national policy profiles

As part of the STI Outlook 2016, the OECD has released policy profiles by country. These include cross-country analyses that draw on the first joint EC-OECD survey on STI policies. They focus on major STI policy areas, instruments and trends.

Environmental taxes: Key findings for Brazil

This country note provides an environmental tax and carbon pricing profile for Brazil. It shows environmentally related tax revenues, taxes on energy use and effective carbon rates.

Brazil - Financing Democracy: Funding of Political Parties and Election Campaigns and the Risk of Policy Capture

This case study provides an overview of the Brazilian political financing system, including the applicable legislation, categories of political parties and funding, regulation mechanisms and transparency initiatives. It also reviews some of the tools provided to political actors to comply with the legal standards, and draft legislation designed to strengthen and reform the political funding system.