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Local conservation efforts are often related to benefits at higher governmental levels. On the one hand, these efforts are strongly connected to local land-use decisions. On the other hand, activities such as sustainable water management or biodiversity conservation are associated with regional,...
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Der Cruzado-Plan vom Februar 1986, der Brasilien schlagartig Preisniveaustabilität ohne eine Stabilisierungskrise … verschaffen sollte, ist gescheitert. Seitdem sind etwas mehr als zwei Jahre vergangen, und Brasilien weist nicht nur wieder - wie … dessen geriet Brasilien in eine Krise mit stagflationärem Charakter: Das öffentliche Defizit, dessen Inflationswirkungen …
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Zu Beginn dieses Jahres befand sich Brasilien mit monatlichen Inflationsraten von über 14 vH am Rande einer …
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The economic literature of property rights has been assessing the impact of different community based arrangements on the efficiency of natural resource management of specific areas. Differently, other strands of development economics and policy-oriented research have been concerned with issues...
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The globalized Western culture of innovation, as propagated by major aid institutions, does not necessarily lead to empowerment or improvement of the well-being of the stakeholders. On the contrary, it often blocks viable indigenous innovation cultures. In African societies and African Diasporas...
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Recent research links the inequality across countries and regions to colonial institutions. This paper argues that trade shocks could alter the development path of a country or subnational units, in spite of its colonial institutions. This hypothesis is analyzed using state-level data for...
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This paper studies the historical origins of the federalist institutions in Mexico and Brazil. Using a bargaining game model, I argue that the type of commodities each country produced by the end of the nineteenth Century determined the negotiation power of local governments. This led to the...
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This paper analyses one of the main pillars of Brazil.s newly found economic resilience: a maturing FX market providing support to its managed .oating exchange rate regime. I develop a microstrucure model suitable to describe the Brazilian FX market, an emerging economy frequently subjected to...
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