This paper analyses the impact of increases in the price of two primary products - coffee and cocoa - on the growth of the national and regional economies in Brazil. It aims at explaining the factors that have determined salutary effects in the coffee region and negligible effects in the cocoa...

This article aims at analysing the effects of cocoa exports for the growth and development of the cocoa region in Bahia during the 1965-1980 period. In this regard, this article, based on Schwartzman's proposition for a regional growth and development strategy from an export base, examines three...