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...

En el marco de esquemas macroeconomicos, clasico y keynesiano, el presente trabajo se concentra en el examen de algunas hipotesis sobre los efectos de eventos que ocurren en la orbita cafetera senalando, de paso, los alcances de una pequena muestra de investigaciones elaboradas al respecto. El...

This paper reports a computable general equilibrium analysis that explores the consequences of the 1994-1995 increase in the international price of coffee for Uganda's economy. Evidence is found for a small effect on both medium-term growth and poverty reduction. Aid dependence is among the...