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Brazil (EMCB) is a pioneering initiative aimed at analyzing and quantifying the impact of climate change on the country …
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convergence hypothesis cannot be rejected suggesting there are differences in the convergence processes between the north and … south in Brazil. Moreover, the positive average-years-of-schooling coefficient gets larger as more aggregate spatial scales …
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convergence hypothesis cannot be rejected suggesting there are differences in the convergence processes between the north and … south in Brazil. Moreover, the positive average-years-of-schooling coefficient gets larger as more aggregate spatial scales …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012056555
in the analysis of the convergence process of European Union (EU15) regions by systematically applying a method to … results suggest that convergence pattern of EU regions depends on the spatial scale of analysis and that convergence occurs …
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and spanning 22 years, first, to test hypothesis that there is within-country income convergence. Second, through a … decomposition of the poverty convergence elasticity, the analysis investigates whether this convergence, if it exists, has … translated into poverty convergence. In a context of overall stagnant economic growth and poverty reduction since 1990, the …
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Brazil is frequently portrayed as exhibiting persistent and structural economic inequality that is rooted in the early … inequality for 1905 in what is today Brazil's largest state, using farm-level micro data for some 50,000 farms. Using these …
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This paper aims to describe the regional configuration of Brazil’s productive structure in 1959, a crucial moment in … is the oldest of its kind for Brazil and is made available to other researchers. Hence, it can be an important tool for …
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This paper provides historical perspectives on regional economic inequalities in Brazil. It analyzes the changes in the … roots of regional inequalities in Brazil. The model on the location of manufacturing activities in 1920 indicates the …
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National and region capital cities are substantially larger than other cities in their countries and typically larger than would be predicted by Zipf's law. Though this empirical regularity is well established in the urban economics literature, causal estimates of the effect of capital...
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areas of Brazil. A unique dataset of small sized firms in 19 economic sectors is used to show evidence that entrepreneurs …
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