the environmental relevance of each sector in the economies of the Amazon region and the rest of Brazil. This study … Brazil, but also by the developed nations, as the burden of the reduction in the greenhouse gases emission in the Brazilian …

controversies. One particular concern is that Brazil, a major agricultural exporter and a country with one of the world’s most …’s smallholders. This claim is explored via a global general equilibrium model and a national model of Brazil containing multiple … agricultural and non-agricultural households. Brazil is found to account for nearly one-half of all the benefits to developing …

industries and firms. We also found that Brazil’s labour productivity growth lagged behind what was achieved in other …This article reassesses the classic period of Import-Substituting Industrialisation (ISI) in Brazil between 1945 and … 1979. New data presented here show that Brazilian industry achieved significant labour productivity growth during the post …

The desire to increase manufacturing productivity has been a commonly cited goal of the trade liberalization episodes … in productivity. However, this paper finds that the methodology used in the literature ignores inter …-industry productivity spillovers and suggests that this omission biases estimates of the impact of import tariff reduction on industry …

general equilibrium model, this paper argues that climate change will negatively affect agricultural productivity in Africa …

population density and limited off-farm employment opportunities, enhancing agriculture productivity is key for sustainable … without significant growth in agriculture it will be virtually impossible to address poverty reduction. Given the high … largely determined by total factor productivity (TFP), which in turn is affected by macroeconomic policies and stability, and …

data set and the latest technique for analysis. The paper focuses on growth in total factor productivity and its … period, total factor productivity has experienced a positive evolution in sampled countries. This good performance of the … regression in productivity in the 1970s, and made some progress during the 1980s and 1990s. The study also highlights the fact …

price shocks and a decline in productivity; these effects caused sub-optimal performance in the agricultural sector. This …

massive variation of agricultural labor productivity across countries. The development of credit markets enables more agents … agriculture as well as increases the supply of modern intermediate inputs to agriculture. Agricultural producers accordingly …, output per worker in agriculture is improved. Poor countries with less-developed credit markets are, therefore, far less …