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country to country depending on which perquisites were present or absent. In the past twenty years, Brazilian agriculture … evolved from “backward” to an agricultural powerhouse. Its production and total factor productivity more than doubled. Brazil … is in the worlds' top five producers of coffee, soybeans, oranges, beef and corn. Yet, some segments of agriculture lag …
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Recent work has suggested that tropical forest and savanna represent alternative stable states, which are subject to drastic switches at tipping points, in response to changes in rainfall patterns and other drivers. Deforestation cost studies have ignored the likelihood and possible economic...
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deforestation. We focus on the Amazon, the world's most extensive rainforest, where Brazil's federal government issued a ‘Priority …
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transfer program intended on reducing school dropout rates among children of poor households in Brazil. We show that while this …
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To quantify trade frictions, we examine multi-product exporters. We build a flexible general equilibrium model and estimate market entry costs using Brazilian firm-product-destination data under rich demand and market-access cost shocks. Our estimates show that additional products farther from a...
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significantly in stages of development and resource bases: the United States, China, Brazil, India, and Venezuela. With the …
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international trade into product entry and exit, price changes, and quantity changes for imports by Brazil, the European Union …
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/capita, shares in world trade and market capitalization attributable both jointly and single to China, India, and Brazil (the three … Brazil. Our calculations show that the majority of the change occurs from growth in these three economies, and the most from …
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Tracking individual workers across jobs after Brazil's trade liberalization in the 1990s shows that tariff cuts trigger …
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In this paper, we use a linked employer-employee database from Brazil to evaluate the wage effects of trade reform …
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