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This article analyzes how forest resources have been used in Brazil since 1930, in an attempt to prove two hypotheses … emphasizes that Brazil is destroying them on a large scale in different intensities among the Brazilian states. The latter has …. Finally, the article discusses some policies that allow the rational use of forest resources in Brazil without hindering the …
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The study of Brazilian export determinants is a very important issue to policy-markers, principally when the export determinants are different among the Brazilian states or regions. Human capital (measured by the average level of employee formal schooling) has been one of these determinants and...
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The Brazilian Amazon is a large piece of land that hosts only 12% of Brazilian population. Even this low figure and people mostly living in urban areas, the overexploitation of the forest resources driven by economic activities seems to be out-of-control. In the 1970s, abundant government...
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domestic destinations in Brazil, in terms of expenditure level and composition. We also look at different alternative of … domestic tourism in Brazil to consolidate an interstate matrix of expenditures by tourists. We then use an interregional input …-output system for Brazil to compute the tourism multipliers based on alternative hypotheses for the sources of financing of …
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We decompose the recent changes in regional inequality in Brazil into its components, highlighting the role of … indicate that the largest part of the recent reduction in regional inequality in Brazil is related to the dynamics in the …
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Climate variability is one of the main environmental causes of losses to the agricultural sector. Most of the methodological tools applied to estimate its economic cost usually account only for the direct impact on agricultural activity. In this paper we use an alternative approach in which a...
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Currently, the region named Brazilian Legal Amazon (BLA) represents the agricultural frontier of Brazil, and it … Brazil's Midwest, a region near to BLA, in the seventies and eighties, can provide a proxy. The Midwest was region of more … intensive agricultural growth in last forty years in Brazil. So, the agents in BLA can compare the actual development stage, in …
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, explicitly considering the various territorial scales in Brazil (macro-regions, states, micro-regions, and networks of cities). A … computable general equilibrium (GCE) model was used to simulate two climate change-free scenarios regarding the future of Brazil … for Brazil and its regions. The models interact with the agricultural/livestock and energy sector studies through …
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The findings presented in this paper come from our study of the effects of Brazilian macroeconomic policy on the Brazilian Farm [product] Price Index using an adapted version of Frankel's (1986 & 2006) theoretical model. The study examined the connection between Brazilian farm prices and...
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skill workers, in Brazil, between 1991 and 2000. …
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