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gains, thus incorporating terms of trade change effects that are not captured by GDP. The international conventions highly …
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gains, thus incorporating terms of trade change effects that are not captured by GDP. The international conventions highly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518533
In this paper we examine from a sectoral point of view the main trends of investment in the Brazilian economy in the 2000s and its relation to value added and to imports and exports coefficients. It is argued for the existence of three expansion fronts: infrastructure, natural resources and mass...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372226
In this paper we examine from a sectoral point of view the main trends of investment in the Brazilian economy in the 2000s and its relation to value added and to imports and exports coefficients. It is argued for the existence of three expansion fronts: infrastructure, natural resources and mass...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010503410
Productive structure, external constraint and economic growth: the Brazilian experience - We analyze the sharp drop in the growth rate that has been experienced by the Brazilian economy since the 1980s, using the balance-of-payments-constrained growth approach. Empirical results show that growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004965223
The aim of this paper is to empirically investigate the impact of human capital on economic growth according to Nelson-Phelps (1966), Lucas (1988) and Romer (1986;1990) approachs. The Lucas approach and shared by neo-classical growth theory, assumes that growth is driven by the accumulation of human...
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This study explores the productivity performance of the Brazilian economy between 1970 and 1998. We assess how much of the TFP downfall can be explained by some departures from the standard procedure. We incorporate to the standard measure utilization of capacity, changes in the workweek of...
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Space activities have been fundamental for defense, communications and meteorology sectors - as well as for observation and positioning operations and for daily life activities. The initial purpose of this paper is to detail the main characteristics of the Brazilian Space Program (PEB, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146754
Space activities have been fundamental for defense, communications and meteorology sectors - as well as for observation and positioning operations and for daily life activities. The initial purpose of this paper is to detail the main characteristics of the Brazilian Space Program (PEB, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011942122
This paper analyses the evolution of agriculture’s participationin the US gross domestic product (GDP) from 1960 to … 2001, there is a downwardtrend of agriculture’s participation in the US GDP with a break from1971 to 1973, in other words … model is presentedto show the main variables that determine agriculture’s participationin a country’s GDP and an econometric …
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