This paper analyses the impact of increases in the price of two primary products - coffee and cocoa - on the growth of the national and regional economies in Brazil. It aims at explaining the factors that have determined salutary effects in the coffee region and negligible effects in the cocoa...

According to available data, real wages in Brazil have been declining since 1980, in terms of wage goods, especially food. The main consequence has been the acceleration of the national income concentration, against the labour share. In order to solve this problem and to increase the real wages,...