In an economic context in which the state is reducing its role in the economy, the agents involved with the Sugar Cane and Alcohol sector, usually highly dependent on government policies, have to change their behavior so they can operate in a competitive market without the benefits from the...

Recent exchanges in the literature on the identification and role of key sectors in national and regional economies have highlighted the difficulties of consensus regarding terminology, appropriate measurement as well as economic interpretation. In this paper, some new perspectives are advanced...

Through the use of input-output analysis and the system of national account, this paper presents new methodological insights in ways to estimate and to measure the Agribusiness GDP of a nation. The GDP of the Agribusiness is also estimated for two major complexes: a) Vegetal Products and b)...

The goal of this study is to present and to analyze a methodology to estimate Input-Output Matrices using preliminary data from the Brazilian National Accounts. This methodology is tested for the years of 1994 and 1996, where the results obtained from the input-output matrices (definitive...

Using the input output tables constructed for Brazil (1959, 1970, 1975, 1980) and the 1985 Brazilian industrial census, this paper has 2 basic goals: 1) to make a study of how the Brazilian economy changed in the period 1960-1985; 2) to make suggestions of how the Brazilian economy could return to...

In the 1990s the Brazilian economy went through a lot of changes, caused mainly by the monetary stabilization and the globalization process occurred. To study the impact of this process over the Brazilian economy, one should go beyond the analysis of growth indicators, like GDP or inflation...

The aim of this article is to study the evolution of the productive structure of the five Brazilian macro regions in the years 1985 and 1995 by means of interregional input-output tables estimated from the national tables published by IBGE. The results showed key-sectors in the five studied...

In this paper the PAPA model, constructed for the Brazilian economy, is described as well as some simulations of policies made with this model. The PAPA model is a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model of the Johansen type and the solutions of the model are given in growth rates. This model...

Producers and households in developing countries are affected by the prices of products involved in international transactions. The impacts of agricultural policy and structural reforms leading to changes in international prices of goods and services are expected to be differentiated across...

The aim of this paper is estimate how important is agriculture and familiar agriculture agribusiness for Brazil and its states. To do so, the GDP for the agribusiness of these complexes is estimated for Brazil and for its 27 states. The estimation is based on an interregional input-output system...