The market to meet the domestic and foreign demands may have distinct decoupling degrees of GDP and consumption water footprint (CWF). Based on the CWF and virtual water trade balance, this study investigates the decoupling of GDP and CWF in the Brazilian economy by decomposing the total into...

The recent discussions that focused on the problems of the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [GATT] together with the emergence of strengthened and expanded free trade areas [such as NAFTA, European Union and MERCOSUL/MERCOSUR] have created the need for careful analysis...

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...

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...

The sugarcane sector in Brazil has been achieving large increases in production since the beginning of the 2000s, owing to the deregulation of its two main products: sugar and ethanol. This growth has been driven more by the ethanol production, which grew at a rate of 13% per annum (between 2000...

China and Brazil are two countries with continental dimensions, with differences in availability of natural resources, population sizes, and which have adopted different strategies of economic growth in the past. China has been following consistently a strategy of Export Led Growth (ELG), while...