-operated farms in Brazil, Paraguay and Peru. Previous studies in Latin America suggest that the gender of the household head is not a …. We hypothesize that female land rights, by increasing women's options, are a positive determinant of household income … operative. They are negatively associated with farm income in both countries and with farm revenue in Brazil. …

theory. In contrast to the standards prevailing in most of Europe and North America, economics in Brazil can be justly … prevailing in Brazil during the 1970s …

Over the last years, there was a continuous fall in labor income inequality in Brazil, as measured by household survey … of work contracts. We analyze these dynamics in Brazil, from 1981 to 2011. We found a "skill-biased" polarization related …

environmental struggle in the region is linked to Brazil's position in an evolving capitalist world-economy. It is shown how Brazil … as weapons of conservation, through boycotting certain products, while other pro-development groups within Brazil claim … that such organizations threaten Brazil's sovereignty over its own resources …