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China and Brazil are two countries with continental dimensions, with differences in availability of natural resources … consistently a strategy of Export Led Growth (ELG), while Brazil, until the mid 1990s had a strategy based on Import Substitution … Industrialization (ISI) with a relatively closed economy to the external market; however, recently Brazil has been switching to a more …
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This study simulates environmental effects with the inter-regional general equilibrium model Mibra assuming economic growth rates in a pessimist scenario of 2.3% a.a. and an optimist scenario of 4.4% a.a., both for the period 2002-2012. Using pollution intensity coefficients associated to...
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, low carbon options to date, yet questions remain over the economic and ecological impacts of this industry. In Brazil …
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Using the MIBRA model, an Applied Interregional General Equilibrium Model, constructed for the Brazilian economy and its five macro regions (North, Northeast, Central West, Southeast, an South), this papers tries to identify which would be the impact of the economic growth in the Brazilian...
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Portuguese Abstract: O objetivo deste texto é investigar a contribuição dos diferentes setores da economia brasileira para o crescimento econômico e seus impactos sobre a distribuição de renda. Choques sobre a demanda exógena de cada um dos setores foram simulados para determinar quais...
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The sugarcane sector in Brazil has been achieving large increases in production since the beginning of the 2000s, owing …
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This paper aims at describing the regional configuration of 1959 Brazil's productive structure through the estimation … of an Inter-State Input-Output system. The estimated matrix is the oldest of this kind for Brazil. It can, hence, be an …
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We use a novel and more precise data set on greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the Amazon region to estimate the nexus between local economic indicators and GHGs. We find that urbanization and waste generation emerge as new and important drivers of observed methane emissions. Local nitrous...
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This paper presents the results of a research conducted to measure the importance of the oil and gas complex in the Brazilian economy and in its states, henceforth called O&G. Initially, the efforts were concentrated on the construction of an interregional input-output system for the 27 states...
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for the external trade of Brazil and its macro regions, with their principal partners in the international market, it was … possible to verify that the theorem was valid for all the 30 relations of trade observed. Brazil and its macro regions have …-Ohlin theorem in 27 cases, the exceptions are found in the trade between: a) Brazil and Mercosur; b) Southeast region and Mercosur …
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