This article looks for measuring and characterizing the milk’s agribusiness ofRio Grande do Sul economy. The methodology used indicators of sectorial performanceand indexes of autonomy of purchases and sales to define the measure of the milk’sagribusiness. The data were extracted of the...

English Abstract: The emergence of strengthened and expanded free trade areas have created the need for careful analysis of the nature of internal and external dependence among nations. In this paper, using a set of intercountry input-output tables for 1990, build for the four main countries...

The article presents, briefly, the structure of an input-output model developed for Mercosul, its methodology of construction and its compilation process. After that, it is characterized, within the markets of Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay, the domestic intersectorial relations, both...

Portuguese Abstract: Utilizando-se das Matrizes de Insumo-Produto para o Brasil (1980) e do banco de dados sobre a competitividade de grãos Argentina-Brasil de Gutierres (1988), gerado pela técnica da programação linear, este trabalho examina os prováveis efeitos intersetoriais da...

The market to meet the domestic and foreign demands may have distinct decoupling degrees of GDP and consumption water footprint (CWF). Based on the CWF and virtual water trade balance, this study investigates the decoupling of GDP and CWF in the Brazilian economy by decomposing the total into...