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leverage in the Brazilian agribusiness sector using the model of Rajan and Zingales (1995). In the definition of the sample … there were selected 26 companies that are classified in one of three subdivisions of the Brazilian agribusiness sector: a … statiscally significant as determinant factors of the debt structure of Brazilian agribusiness companies. It is also possible to …
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agribusiness and the sophistication revealed of exports baskets of agribusiness products to the Southern Cone countries and the … sophisticated exports of the products of agribusiness of Southern Cone countries, the greater the effects of income growth and the … multiplier effect (spillovers) for the economies of countries. However, ceteris paribus, to export agribusiness products …
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This work presents main results of how inhabitants of Alto Paraíso de Goias are seeking alternatives to sustainable development through the implantation, by Embrapa, of a project about the rescue of coffee. Mining and farming activities were developed in the region until its main activity...
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Measures to stimulate the demand for some manufacturing products have been carried out by the Brazilian government. However, the country is admittedly competitive in its agricultural production and policies to encourage its demand have not been established in the same magnitude as those of...
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contract breaches. Forward marketing contracts represent an important source of resources to finance Brazilian agriculture …
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The aim of this dissertation is to identify the causal relation between rural child labour and health. The analysis utilized the PNAD, a Brazilian household survey, from 1998 and 2003. The econometric modeling was based on the pseudo-panel approach and was considered the children from 5 to 15...
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This study investigated the state of the art of traditional, or landrace seeds in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. An ethnographic study was carried out by means of a non-statistical seed sampling in 13 farms from eight municipalities lying in the regions of the Greater Porto Alegre, Serra,...
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The objective of the present paper is to examine the behavior and the structure of the export sector of the economy of Rio Grande do Norte from 1996 to 2006, and to identify the products of revealed comparative advantage. The paper also seeks to measure levels of export concentration of products...
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The study analyzes the convergence of the labor productivity in the Brazilian agricultural sector in the nineties, comparing it with its productivity in the other sectors and projecting its future behavior through Markov matrices. The results indicate that the Brazilian states are diverging in...
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This paper analyses the evolution of agriculture’s participation in the US gross domestic product (GDP) from 1960 to 2001. An econometric model is run in order to identify the main variables that determine this participation. From 1960 to 2001, there is a downward trend of...
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