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Sugar bulletin : No. 1
1948
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Sugar
1952
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Expected growth of sugarcane industry and impact on the Brazilian economy: 2015 and 2020
Costa, Cinthia Cabral da; Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
to the deregulation of its two main products: sugar and ethanol. This growth has been driven more by the ethanol … production, which grew at a rate of 13% per annum (between 2000 and 2009), than by sugar, which grew at an annual rate of 8% over …, such as the mechanization of sugarcane harvesting, are also in progress. Taking into account the future demands for sugar …
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Why Inventions Occurred in Some Countries and Not in Others?
Sequeira, Tiago; Santos, Marcelo; Ferreira-Lopes, Alexandra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The reasons why inventions that shaped industrial revolutions, occurred in the UK and in the USA, have been suggested by economic historians. For the first time,we access the determinants of more than a hundred inventions around the world, explaining why they occurred in a given country and why...
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The "Out of Africa" Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development
Galor, Oded; Ashraf, Quamrul - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that, in the course of the...
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Human Capital and Genetic Diversity
Sequeira, Tiago; Santos, Marcelo; Ferreira-Lopes, Alexandra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The determinants of human capital have been studied sparsely in the literature. Although there is a huge literature on the determinants of schooling linked with the quality of schooling, there are not many contributions that explore the deep determinants of investment in, quantity and quality of...
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The Out of Africa Hypothesis of Comparative Development Reflected by Nighttime Light Intensity
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This research establishes that migratory distance from the cradle of anatomically modern humans in East Africa and its effect on the distribution of genetic diversity across countries has a hump-shaped effect on nighttime light intensity per capita as observed by satellites, reflecting the...
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Genetic Diversity and the Origins of Cultural Fragmentation
Galor, Oded; Ashraf, Quamrul - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
genetic diversity, predominantly determined during the prehistoric "out of Africa" migration of humans, is an underlying cause …
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The Geography of Fear
Treisman, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Whether the danger invoked is nuclear war or genetically modified foods, far more people in some countries than in others say they are afraid. Using data from six surveys, I show that the levels of reported fear of different dangers correlate strongly across both individuals and countries. I...
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Colonial Institutions, Slavery, Inequality, and Development: Evidence from São Paulo, Brazil
Summerhill, William - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
institutions, slavery, farm inequality, and political inequality on long-term development in São Paulo. The principal findings are … end of the twentieth century; (2) measures of the intensity of slavery have little if any independent impact on income in … contemporary economic or political inequality. Overall, neither the intensity of slavery nor the pattern of inequality had any …
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