In this paper it is made a review of the economic literature in input-output analysis, with two goals in mind: a) to place the work developed by Leontief in terms o the history of economic thought; and b) to present the principles of the evolution of this theory, in theoretical and practical...

In the literature, the tourism has been placed as an activity that propels development, and at the same time generates income and employment, mainly in areas with exotic landscapes and with scarce financial resources. One of the reasons for that is the low relative level of investment required...

This article analyses the effects of the price level stabilization and the economic openness on the Brazilian productive sectors using the yearly input-output tables for the 1990s. Aiming at a better understanding of the changes that had impacted the Brazilian economy, the results were...

This paper intends to expose the gross domestic product (GDP) evolution of the agribusiness in Bahia and its mesoregions, between the years 2000 and 2005. The inputoutput approach was applied, in order to measure the agribusiness, which was divided into segments and subcomplexes in each...

There has been a strong expansion of the federal universities’ system in Brazil in this century, consisted of increased public spending. This study aims to estimate the regional economic impact of this expansion, using an Interregional Input-Output model estimated for the 558 micro-regions of...

The Brazilian meat production in 1999 is estimated at 12.8 million tons, and the main productive chains of this sector are: a) the beef chain (6.7 million tons); b) the poultry chain (5.0 million tons); and the pork chain (1.7 million tons). Brazil is the world second largest beef producer...

This paper analyses the relationship between economic performance and CO2 emissions in Brazil, in the year 2004. The contribution of the diverse productive sectors to total emission is established, taking into account the technological structure of the economy, the interrelations among sectors,...

This study proposes a social-environmental economic model, based on Regional Sequential Interindustry Model (SIM) integrated with geoprocessing data, in order to identify economic, pollution and public health impacts in state and municipality levels for energy planning analysis. Integrating I-O...

On the external side Brazil has experienced since the beginning of the 1990’s an opening process of its economy in a world environment were there have been a wide process of block formation (European Union, Nafta, Mercosur, etc.), on the internal side the Brazilian Real Plan in 1994 has...

Brazil has more than 23 million rural people with unimproved sanitation, which corresponds to about 75% of rural population. One reflection of this situation is observed in health, where there is an index of mortality caused by diarrhea (the main disease caused by unimproved sanitation) similar...