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agricultural commodities will have on income distribution and poverty in Brazil. To do so, a Social Accounting Matrix is …
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The purpose of this paper is to assess comparative efficiency in water and sanitation sector in Brazil. We run a …
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Agricultural census data and fieldwork observations are used to analyze changes in land cover/use intensity across Rondônia and Mato Grosso states along the agricultural frontier in the Brazilian Amazon. Results show that the development of land use is strongly related to land distribution...
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numerous examples of domestic programs for mitigation by this group of countries. Brazil has gone furthest among developing … Brazil’s position are discussed, with a particular eye to the effects of international influences. In conjunction with …
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Brazil’s status as a rapidly developing country is visible in its need for more energy, including electricity. While … that, under the cost-optimal base case scenario, Brazil’s GHGs from electricity (excluding hydroelectric reservoir … emissions) rise 370% by 2040 relative to 2010, with the carbon intensity per MWh rising 100%. This rise would make Brazil …
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This study is to analyze how to extend the sugar plants by a polygeneration technology to produce sugar, bioethanol …, biogas and bioelectricity. The possibility of selling the bioelectricity to the national grid in Brazil is also investigated … employing the most economical combinations of sugar, bioethanol, biogas, and electricity. We calculated the cost of exporting …
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Research on subjective social status has long recognized that individuals occupy multiple social hierarchies, with socioeconomic status (SES) being but one. The issue, as such, has been to identify culturally meaningful measures of social status. Through cognitive anthropological theory and...
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Community-Based Participatory Research principles. A team of U.S.-Brazil research partners, including CHWs, worked together from … CHWs in Brazil’s Unified Health System, Mesquita, Rio de Janeiro. Data collection for the project which originated this …
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the resolution of the health problem; in other words, on access in its broad domain. For Colombia and Brazil, countries … three months (2163 in Colombia and 2155 in Brazil). The results reveal important barriers to healthcare access in both … authorization from insurers are more relevant, whereas in Brazil, it is the limited availability of health centres, doctors and …
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This paper explores the expected outcome of maternal nutritional “buffering,” namely that children's diets will be more adequate than mothers' diets under conditions of food scarcity. Data on Amazonian mothers and their children, household demography and economics and direct, weighed...
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