This study evaluates the consumption characteristics of sugar and products containing sugar based on data from the Brazilian Family Budget Surveys carried out in 2002/03 and 2008/09. The methodological approach consists in estimating the income elasticities, as proposed by Hoffmann (1983, 2010),...

A maioria dos estudos de integração de mercados que utiliza a técnica de cointegração com threshold não se preocupa em testar qual o número de regimes de ajustamento de preços é o mais adequado. Neste estudo, utiliza-se um procedimento para determinar o número de regimes...

RER, Rio de Janeiro, vol. 42, nº 04, p. 709-731, out/dez 2004 – Impressa em dezembro 2004 The application of a prospective study to productive chains incorporates several stages like the segmentation of each link, the analysis of institutional and organizational environments to include the...

The motivation of this article bases on the controversy in the recent literature about economic growth, sustainable development and environmental protection, started with the empirical evidences presented by Grossman and Krueger (1995, 1996), where the relationship between per capita GDP and...

The Ecological ICMS was first used to distribute a share of the ICMS revenue in the Paraná state in 1991. This pioneer experience originated from counties’ claims which argued that their economies were harmed by land use restrictions, mainly because they were watershed protection areas or...

The main purpose of this paper is to know farmer’s attitudes face to the agricultural production, the political support and the irrigation project of Alqueva in the context of the 2003 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform and the Health-Check, in a micro-region located near the...

The paper present a typology of the new and diverse new rural residents assuming as empirical support the case study of Manizales, Colombia. The information was generated from semi-structured interviews focused on the motivations to migrate from the city to the country and the integration of...

Planning models that connect natural forests through corridors formed by industrial forests result in combinatorial mathematical problems that are difficult to solve and demand special techniques. The main objective of this paper is to apply, improve and evaluate the performance of a heuristic...

This paper aims to understand how the structures of governance, settled by strategic resources, may affect responsiveness to environmental laws, the relations of producers and processors, in distilleries of Paraná. From a complementary perspective of Transaction Costs Economics (TCE) and...

The national agricultural section, in phase of reorganization and adaptation to the new production and sale standards, faces the challenge of growing in a competitive and sustainable way, to meet the internal demand and to conquer and to maintain foreign market space, supplying products and...