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La llegada del PT al gobierno brasileño: ¿un cambio de rumbo respecto a las posibilidades de desarrollo del país?
García, Bibiana Medialdea - HAL - 2013
Este trabajo parte de la idea de que la reproducción del subdesarrollo brasileño se explica por la persistencia de un conjunto de elementos que operan como obstáculos de carácter estructural, a los que nos referimos con el nombre de límites estructurales al desarrollo económico....
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Trade-Induced Changes in Economic Inequality: Assessment Issues and Policy Implications for Developing Countries
Chabe-Ferret, Sylvain; Gourdon, Julien; Marouani, … - HAL - 2011
The starting point of this paper is given by country situations where trade liberalization is expected to be poverty … and inequality alleviating in the long run while inducing a short run increase in poverty or in inequality. The question … trade policies within a global policy framework so as to enhance growth and reduce poverty and inequality. The method …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805102
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Openness, Inequality, and Poverty: Endowments Matter
Gourdon, Julien; Maystre, Nicolas; De, Jaime Melo - HAL - 2011
Using tariffs as a measure of openness, this paper finds consistent evidence that the conditional effects of trade liberalization on inequality are correlated with relative factor endowments. Trade liberalization, measured by changes in tariff revenues, is associated with increases in inequality...
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Openness and Inequality in Developing Countries: a New Look at the Evidence
Gourdon, Julien - HAL - 2011
Integration to world markets is expected to help developing countries to access prosperity. At the same time, increasing opportunities to trade are likely to affect income distribution and whether or not increasing openness to trade is accompanied by a reduction or an increase inequality is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805959
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Asymptotic and bootstrap inference for inequality and poverty measures
Davidson, Russell; Flachaire, Emmanuel - HAL - 2007
inference with poverty indices is satisfactory. We find that the major cause is the extreme sensitivity of many inequality …
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Socially Responsible Investment in the USA : evolution of the shareholder advocacy to improve social performance of the firms. Updating a database for a longitudinal study
Martinez, Laura - HAL - 2011
The aim of this report is to analyze the Socially Responsible Investment in the USA from the shareholder's point of view. Based on the rule 14a-8, dissatisfied investors or activists may submit proposal to be implemented in order to improve social, societal and environmental performances of a...
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Does Land Tenure Insecurity Drive Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon?
Araujo, Claudio; Bonjean, Catherine Araujo; Combes, … - HAL - 2011
The purpose of this paper is to highlight the detrimental impact of land tenure insecurity on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. It is related to recent controversies about the detrimental impact of land laws on deforestation, which seem to legitimize land encroachments. The latter is mainly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794360
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The Brazilian organic food sector: Prospects and constraints of facilitating the inclusion of smallholders
Blanc, Julien; Kledal, Paul - HAL - 2012
development based model in Brazil, but underlined that there is a critical lack of support for farmers included in the commercial …
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El marco de la Cooperación Económica entre Brasil y África Subsahariana: Angola, Mozambique y Sudáfrica
Menes, Danthe Damián Valderrama - HAL - 2012
The study of the southern economies, among which emerging countries such as Brazil and several of Africa stand out, has …-Saharan Africa is analyzed, focusing on the relations between Brazil and three African countries: Angola, Mozambique and South Africa. …
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Brasil: la sostenibilidad de la agroindustria de la caña de azúcar y las oportunidades de exportación de bioetanol a la Unión Europea
Portocarrero, Izabel Rigo - HAL - 2013
En Brasil, el bioetanol, juntamente con el bagazo de la caña, representa el 18,1% de la oferta interna de energía, lo que lo califica como la segunda mayor fuente de energía en una matriz energética compuesta por un 45% de energías renovables, mientras que la media mundial llega al 14%. Se...
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