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This paper aims to analyze the technical efficiency of farms in Brazil and its regions, based on the data from the 2006 Census of Agriculture. More specifically, it seeks to compare the technical efficiency of family farms in relation to business farms, considering the regional differences in...
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The objective of this research was to examine the capacity of sectors to generate income of the economy and the local and inter-regional impacts. For this purpose we built na input-output system with four regions, Paraná, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul and the Rest of Brazil. The main...
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The Paraná State, one of the fastest growing states in the Brazilian economy, has gone through a lot of structural changes in the last two decades. In this time period, the primary sector activities lost in importance to the secondary and the tertiary sectors. In this process of going from an...
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This aim of this paper is to estimate the level of economic activity in the Northeast Region of Brazil which is derived from the family agribusiness, for the period from 1995 to 2006. The agribusiness takes into consideration the relations between the agriculture production and the other sectors...
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The potential impacts of multilateral trade liberalisation on developing countries are the subject of numerous controversies. One particular concern is that Brazil, a major agricultural exporter and a country with one of the world’s most unequal income distributions, will reap a substantial...
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This study aimed to quantify the inter sectoral and inter-regional relations and compare the productive structure of five polarized regions of the Parana state economy, namely: Curitiba, Ponta Grossa, Londrina, Maringá and Cascavel gathered on a inter-regional input-output system for 2006. The...
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The planning and management of water resources aiming to a sustainable development must necessary pass through a series of studies that will reveal the interrelations and links among economic activities, and if one is considering that there is a set regions involved in the process, the direct...
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This study is aimed to analyze the tourism contributions to the Brazilian economy by using a tourism input-output matrix constructed for the Brazilian economy by Casimiro Filho (2002) for the year of 1999. The analysis is conducted by using the traditional approach of the Hirschmann-Rasmussem...
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This paper examines the structural changes in Brazil’s economy which can be observed through various censuses and input-output tables in the period 1960 to 1980. The paper shows how the country’s economy became more vertically integrated in those years, even though it has become more...
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The emergence of strengthened and expanded free trade areas have created the need for careful analysis of the nature of internal and external dependence among nations. In this paper, using a set of intercountry input-output tables for 1990, build for the four main countries that are integrated...
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