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China and Brazil Productive Structure and Economic Growth Compared: 1980’s to 2000’s
Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins; Polenske, Karen Rosel; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
China and Brazil are two countries with continental dimensions, with differences in availability of natural resources …, population sizes, and which have adopted different strategies of economic growth in the past. China has been following … power parity rates (GNI-PPP) of China and Brazil were at approximately the same level, but by the mid 2000s the GNI-PPP of …
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A gravity model of virtual water trade
Fracasso, Andrea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This work investigates the determinants of virtual water trade (VWT) flows by means of an estimated gravity model of trade applied to the virtual water embodied in the agricultural goods exchanged across countries. In line with the recent literature on the gravity model, the paper presents a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261093
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Determinants of virtual water flows in the Mediterranean
Fracasso, Andrea; Sartori, Martina; Schiavo, Stefano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The aim of the paper is to investigate the main determinants of the bilateral virtual water ‘flows’ associated with international trade in agricultural goods across the Mediterranean basin. Virtual water refers to the volume of water used in the production of a commodity or a service. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108156
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Unfolding the potential of the Virtual Water concept. What is still under debate?
Antonelli, Marta; Sartori, Martina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The concept of virtual water refers to the volume of water used in the production of a commodity or a service. The concept was identified by the geographer Tony Allan in the early 1990s, to draw attention on the global economic processes that ameliorate local water deficits in the MENA region...
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Environmentally Extended Input–Output Analysis of the UK Economy: Key Sector Analysis
Shmelev, Stanislav Edward - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper assesses the sustainability of investment in various economic sectors, with the aim of minimizing resource use and generation of emissions. The broad development focus of the paper and the potential for the proposed methodology to be applied in many different countries make it a useful...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008753053
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Distribuição racional de água e energia elétrica entre os setores econômicos do estado do Ceará - uma análise insumo-produto
V. P. Sales de Lima, Patrícia; Guilhoto, Joaquim José … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
The deep economic modifications suffered by the State of Ceará, in the last two decades, have been increasing the consumption of production factors, among them, water and energy, essential to most productive activities. However, as the supply of both inputs, in the region, is limited, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109367
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Impacts of reallocation of resource constraints on the northeast economy of Brazil
Hewings, Geoffrey J.D.; Dridi, Chokri; Guilhoto, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
There is a growing recognition in the economic development literature that one of the major impediments to growth and development in the next will be access to water. In recognition of this emerging problem, the present research aims to provide a formal link between water consumption and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113757
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Employment and familiar agriculture agribusiness in the Brazilian economy: an interregional Leontief-Miyazawa model approach
Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins; Camargo, Fernanda … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The agricultural sector has great importance in the socio-economic development. Its development throughout history has enabled the emergence of other activities and therefore new jobs. Furthermore, the importance of the agribusiness can be evidence for its share of about 30% in the total...
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Water use options for regional development. Potentials of new water technologies in Central Northern Namibia
Lux, Alexandra; Janowicz, Cedric - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The CuveWaters project relates the alignment and implementation of innovative water technologies to an Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in the Cuvelai-Etosha-Basin, which lies in Central Northern Namibia. The aim here is to improve inhabitants’ living conditions by means of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528722
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Water transfers in El Paso County, Texas
Fullerton, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Water rights transfers for surface water have taken place in El Paso County in far west Texas for many decades. Historically, these exchanges have primarily occurred between agricultural water users. In recent decades, there have also been trnsfers from agricultural uses to urban uses. Ongoing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616763