The 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro focused the international spotlight on the problem of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. This report was prepared in an attempt to provide both national and international policy makers with...

The Brazilian government is now planning to implement natural forest concessions for timber extraction. In addition to the legal requirements imposed on the management of concessions (minimum reserves, maximum extraction rates, etc.), the value of concessions is closely linked with uncertainties...

In this paper we present projections for Brazil's balance of payments in 1999 under alternative scenarios for GDP growth and foreign capital inflows. Our main objective is to estimate the real exchange rate devaluation required for the country's external adjustment. Our simulations are based on...

This paper studies the medium run prospects ? up to 2003 ? for Brazilian foreign liabilities based on an analytical framework that calculates the current account balance required to stabilize the ratio foreign liabilities/exports. We project the behavior of the main current account variables...

This paper presents quantitative evidence on the relationship between forest conversion and the productivity of agropastoral activities in the Legal Amazon. The extraction of timber products such as wood, fuelwood and charcoal is related to the process of agropastoral expansion in this region...

To inform the search for SDG synergies in infrastructure provision, and to reduce SDG tradeoffs, the authors show that road impacts on Brazilian Amazon forests have varied significantly across settings. Forest loss varied predictably with prior development - both prior roads and prior...

This paper provides an estimate of the amount of carbon emissions that resulted from large scale deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon during the aggressive development period 1970 - 1985. The estimate is derived by combining a dynamic carbon model with a municipality level data set describing...

Carbon Emissions from Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon