TY - GEN AU - Pires, Jose Claudio Linhares AU - Russell, Nathaniel TI - Assessing Firm-Support Programs in Brazil: Executive Summary PY - 2017 Y1 - 2017/12/04 DO - 10.18235/0000940 AB - This study provides an overview of various Brazilian programs of firm support — including productive finance, business consulting, value chain, export promotion, and innovation support — as well as an assessment of the effects of a subset of these programs on productivity, employment, and real wages. Access to a unique dataset on Brazilian firms and beneficiaries allowed the Office of Evaluation and Oversight to analyze these programs over an 11-year period, 2002 to 2012. UR - https://doi.org/10.18235/0000940 ER -