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Fundamental research of the coffee economy have shown that regional class alliances were established imprecisely in the …
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Brazil is a country with long-standing ambitions for a major role in the world economy and in global governance, but … achievement will likely remain large, so we provide a critique of Brazil’s strategy in terms of economic statecraft; reflect on … enhance Brazil’s leadership role at the regional and global levels. It would involve the Brazilian government and business …
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Three nominal exchange rate series are presented, for the mil-reis and the dollar in relation to sterling, and for the mil-reis in relation to the dollar. For each of these, two series are constructed: current rates and long-term rates, representing the secular tendency of these exchange rates....
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concentration of wealth were remarkable features at least in the most important coffee region in Brazil during the early twentieth …This paper examines the concentration of land ownership in the leading coffee export region in the early twentieth … century, the northeast area of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Critics of the so-called plantationist perspective have …
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The basic theorems of international trade lead economists to expect trade and autarky to result in income expansion and contraction. Likewise, world trade fluctuations may be expected to lead to fluctuations in domestic income. These theorems assume, however, that trade expansion and contraction...
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The debate over the Brazilian national steel-making problem took shape in the end of the 1900 decade and lasted until 1941, with the creation, by the Brazilian federal government, of the Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN – National Steel Company) to build and exploit the Volta Redonda steel...
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In February 1931, Getúlio Vargas delivered a well known speech in Belo Horizonte and made then one of his most important public interventions in the Brazilian steel-making debate. This speech made fortune in the historiography, above all for its incisive statement in favor of a national...
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This article documents the adoption of computer technology by a civil engineering services and construction company in Mexico at the time that it became the first Mexican multinational enterprise. Computerization took place independently of cross border growth. The challenges, failures and...
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, Brazil, Mexico and Uruguay before 1914, which are calculated on the basis of the growth accounting methodology. The outcomes … three cases under study (Argentina, Mexico and Brazil) the railways provided huge direct benefits. In Argentina and Mexico … contrast, in the case of Brazil, the outcomes of the analysis indicate that the direct contribution of railways to growth would …
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This paper studies the determinants of repeat visiting in Uruguay, where loyal visitors are a relevant part of the total. From a statistical point of view the number of times a visitor has been to a place constitutes count data. In this regard available information on Uruguay present relevant...
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