This study aimed to analyze the economic structure of Minas Gerais State, Brazil, to measure the agribusiness sector of the state in the years of 1980 and 1996 and to evaluate the agribusiness share on total GDP formation, based on inter-regionalinput-output matrices. The principal results...

The objective of this study was to analyze the aggregate agriculture productionfunction for the state of Minas Gerais. The analysis was accomplished in two phases.First, we separate the municipalities in terms of the productive efficiency, using thenon-parametric approach of data envelopment...

Given the relevance of the credit unions at national and world level, the objective of this work was to describe the profile of the financial cooperatives from the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. This study is based on data collected in the period of May to June of 2004, and the sample of...

The objective of this work is to analyze coffee production and processing in theeconomic structure of Minas Gerais, to determine its importance and its linkages to thestructure of the State economy, by using input-output matrix. Therefore, it is determinedlinkages indexes of Rasmussen-Hirschman,...

Nord-Süd-Handel, der Handel zwischen Entwicklungs- und Industrieländern, war über lange Zeit hinweg das bestimmende Muster der weltweiten Warenströme. In der Nachkriegszeit wurde jedoch im Rahmen der Prebisch-Singer-Hypothese vermehrt Kritik am Nord-Süd-Handel laut. Hierbei wurde...