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The Development of the Brazilian Amazon Region and Greenhouse Gases Emission : A Dilemma to Be Faced!
Imori, Denise; Guilhoto, Joaquim; David, Letícia Scretas; … - 2011
The purpose of this work is to verify the existence of possible tradeoffs between policies direct to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) with the ones direct to foster the development of the Brazilian Amazon Region, which is one of the poorest in the country. In order to achieve this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014043358
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China and Brazil Productive Structure and Economic Growth Compared: 1980’s to 2000’s
Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins; Polenske, Karen Rosel; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
China and Brazil are two countries with continental dimensions, with differences in availability of natural resources …, population sizes, and which have adopted different strategies of economic growth in the past. China has been following … power parity rates (GNI-PPP) of China and Brazil were at approximately the same level, but by the mid 2000s the GNI-PPP of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919791
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What is wrong with virtual water trading?
Gawel, Erik; Bernsen, Kristina - 2011
So-called virtual water, the water embedded in internationally traded goods, has come under discussion. The amount of quantitative studies which attempt to estimate volumes and flows of virtual water in relation to agricultural trade is rising rapidly, while the concept has been recognized by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304588
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A statistical analysis of the social and environmental risks of the international trade in virtual water
Kopnova, Y. - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-9
This work develops a statistical methodology of analysis of the international trade in virtual water in the context of sustainable evolution. Using the example of agriculture, the impact of the flows of virtual water in the composition of products using indicators related to social and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011988754
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Água virtual e o complexo soja: Contabilizando as exportções brasileiras em termos de recursos naturais
Bassi, Camillo de Moraes - 2016
The text aims to account for Brazilian exports, in terms of natural resources. Precisely, the virtual water, carried by soy complex in 2013, identifying the volumetric addition, the main recipients. The proposal, more than the simple quantification, is to demonstrate that, as Brazil is a major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011516681
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Água virtual e o complexo soja : contabilizando as exportções brasileiras em termos de recursos naturais
Bassi, Camillo de Moraes - 2016
The text aims to account for Brazilian exports, in terms of natural resources. Precisely, the virtual water, carried by soy complex in 2013, identifying the volumetric addition, the main recipients. The proposal, more than the simple quantification, is to demonstrate that, as Brazil is a major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442113
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A statistical analysis of the social and environmental risks of the international trade in virtual water
Kopnova, Y. - In: Cogent economics & finance 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-9
This work develops a statistical methodology of analysis of the international trade in virtual water in the context of sustainable evolution. Using the example of agriculture, the impact of the flows of virtual water in the composition of products using indicators related to social and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011881122
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A gravity model of virtual water trade
Fracasso, Andrea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This work investigates the determinants of virtual water trade (VWT) flows by means of an estimated gravity model of trade applied to the virtual water embodied in the agricultural goods exchanged across countries. In line with the recent literature on the gravity model, the paper presents a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261093
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The Economic Impact Water Taxes: a Computable General Equilibrium Analysis with an International Data Set
Berrittella, Maria; Rehdanz, Katrin; Roson, Roberto; … - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2008
Water is scarce in many countries. One instrument to improve the allocation of a scarce resource is (efficient) pricing or taxation. However, water is implicitly traded on international markets, particularly through food and textiles, so that impacts of water taxes cannot be studied in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643866
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Is irrigation driven by the price of internationally traded agricultural products?
Cheptea, Angela; Laroche Dupraz, Catherine - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 1 (2021) 1, pp. 1-18
A recent trend of literature investigates how international trade compensates or accentuates the differences in countries’ endowments in water resources and whether trade regulation should be used to improve the use of water resources at the global level. We develop a simple model establishing...
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