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Regional inequality and growth : the role of interregional trade in the Brazilian economy
Magalhães, Aline Souza; Domingues, Edson Paulo - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003896499
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Economic growth and infrastructure in Brazil : a spatial multilevel approach
Almeida, Eduardo Simões de; Guimarães, Pablo Miranda - 2014
alternatives for doing an analysis of income convergence for Brazil. One alternative would be to do the income convergence analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011503515
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Cost of living and wages in the Brazilian metropolitans regions
Almeida, Alexandre Nunes de; Spolador, Humberto … - 2014 - (Preliminary draft)
This paper analyses the relationship between household cost of living and wages in the Brazilian metropolitan regions. The country's economic growth in the last decade contributed significantly to structural economic changes at the regional level, in terms of employment, population growth and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011504384
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The impact of Brazilian regional development funds on regional economic growth : a spatial panel approach : 54th ERSA Congress, 26-29 August 2014 - Saint Petersburg, Russia
Cravo, Túlio; Resende, Guilherme Mendes; Carvalho, … - 2014
In Brazil, the regional development policy is directed by the regional development funds for the Northeast (FNE), the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011504386
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Income convergence : an analysis for the Brazilian States between 1994 - 2010
Gomes, Alexandre; Gazonato, Mariana; Reis, Raphael - 2014
Income inequality is a phenomenon that occurs in different proportions in many countries of the world. In Brazil, the … this occurrence in the neighboring units. This results is to somewhat expected since that in Brazil there is a clear North … Brazil, recent public policies such as the universalization of education access and cash transfers programs, for instance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011499339
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Spatial externalities between Brazilian municipios and their neighbours
De Vreyer, Philippe (contributor);  … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003222245
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Telecommunications, productivity and regional dependence : a comparative analysis between the Brazil, China and main developed regions in the post-reform period
Betarelli Junior, Admir Antonio; Faria, Weslem Rodrigues; … - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 11 (2022), pp. 1-24
In the last two decades, new technologies and the rapid growth of the telecommunications sector have changed production and trade relations in world economic systems. Regional dependence on the level of productivity, supply and demand of telecommunications has increased worldwide. Our study...
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A century of regional inequalities in Brazil
Magalhães, João Carlos Ramos; Alves, Pedro Jorge Holanda - 2022
This work calculates coefficients of spatial inequalities of wealth amongst Brazilian municipalities, for each year for the period from 1920 to 2016, states of the federation, from 1939 to 2017, and amongst municipalities from each of the five Brazilians' macro-regions, from 1920 to 2016. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014428797
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Territorial capital and regional growth : increasing returns in cognitive knowledge use
Capello, Roberta; Caragliu, Andrea; Nijkamp, Peter - 2009
Knowledge drives the growth of nations and regions in a competitive space-economy. Hence, we would expect a strong correlation between investments in R&D, knowledge and learning processes, on the one hand, and productivity increases, on the other. However, the empirical evidence shows consistent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378339
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Regional bank efficiency and its effect on regional growth in “normal” and “bad” times
Belke, Ansgar; Haskamp, Ulrich; Setzer, Ralph - 2015
The financial crisis affected regions in Europe in a different magnitude. This is why we examine whether regions which incorporate banks with a higher intermediation quality grow faster in “normal” times and are more resilient in “bad” ones. For this purpose, we measure the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381424