Hoping to use the Banco Palmas model as a successful guide for other low-income communities throughout Brazil, the inhabitants of Conjunto Palmeira developed the Instituto Banco Palmas, which partnered with the National Secretariat of Solidarity Economy and the Banco Popular do Brasil in 2005.

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From a total factor productivity standpoint, a guide post used by economists to measure capital investment in an economy, Brazil grew 1.2 percent over the last 8 years ending 2010, while Mexico grew just 0.1 percent.

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The economic and social costs from this myopic fiscal policy were well learned and helped guide the sustained pragmatic fiscal policy effort of the past decade in countries like Brazil, though much of it was forced on them by the International Monetary Fund bailouts and resulting conditions of those bailouts at the time.

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