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Water Scarcity and Birth Outcomes in the Brazilian Semiarid

Rocha, Rudi - 2013

concentrate on the semiarid region of Northeastern Brazil to highlight the role of water scarcity as a determinant of early life …

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Efficiency of Brazilian Public and Private Water Utilities

Souza, Geraldo Silva - 2009

This paper compares cost efficiencies of Brazilian public and private companies of water supply. To measure efficiency a Cobb-Douglas stochastic cost frontier model including technical effects is estimated by maximum likelihood to a panel of Brazilian firms for the period 2002-2004. The...

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Future scenarios for the development of the desalination industry in contexts of water scarcity : A Brazilian case study

Moreira, Fabrícia de Souza; Lopes, Mariana Padilha Campos - In: Technological forecasting & social change : an … 167 (2021), pp. 120727

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Getting Things Done : Bureaucratic and Entrepreneurial Approaches to the Practice of Participatory Water Management Reforms in Brazil and India

Fuller, Boyd - 2015

Based on field investigations of initiatives to increase stakeholder participation in water management in Brazil and …

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Impacts of a Reduction in Water Availability for Agriculture in Brazil

Viana, Jorge H. N. - 2018

leveled in some regions in Brazil. Conversely to what is presented here, the model can simulate various exogenously raw water …, this is the first CGE model developed for Brazil that both actually incorporate endogenous demand for water as part of …

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How "Natural" are Natural Monopolies in the Water Supply and Sewerage Sector? Case Studies from Developing and Transition Economies

Nauges, C??line; Berg, Caroline H. van den - 2012

economies in the water industry in four countries (Brazil, Colombia, Moldova, and Vietnam) that differ substantially in economic … Brazil the authors cannot reject the 0 hypothesis of constant returns to scale. They also find evidence of economies of …

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