The knowledge of the transport infrastructure is essential to define development strategies, especially in countries with continental dimensions like Brazil. Information about the spatial distribution of the economic agents and its commercial transactions allow the creation of specific regional...

This paper, in Portuguese, main goal is to perform a structural analysis of the Brazilian Northeastern region economy, adding in this way to the empirical knowledge of conceptual studies that emphasize the socio-economic progress of the Northeast region and its states.The analysis was made...

The main objective of this paper is to assess the tourism activity in Brazil, and examine, particularly, its capacity to generate employment. To this aim an input output matrix, that considers the tourism as a set of sectors of the economy, was computed for the year 2006. This matrix made it...

This paper aims to present the level of agribusiness family activity in Rio Grande do Sul, for the period 1995 to 2003. Through the input-output models has been possible to estimate the importance of gross domestic product generated by the agribusiness family. The results show that agribusiness...

The agricultural sector has great importance in the socio-economic development. Its development throughout history has enabled the emergence of other activities and therefore new jobs. Furthermore, the importance of the agribusiness can be evidence for its share of about 30% in the total...

The Brazilian citrus industry produced about $ 6.5 billion of GDP and accounted for 230,000 jobs in the country in the 2008/09 crop. However, the production sector has been threatened by a disease first detected in the country in 2004, huangloging (HLB or greening), which has no cure or...

This paper intends to analyze the behavior and importance of the sectors of agricultural production and industrialization of coffee for each of the main Brazilian producers (Minas Gerais, Espirito Santo, Sao Paulo, Parana, Bahia and Rondônia) in relation to their economies and in relation to...

Brazil has about 30% of GDP from agribusiness sectors. This shows the importance of agribusiness in the country, which is also one of the largest agricultural producers in the world. Considering the linkage effects of shocks in some non-agricultural and agricultural sectors selected, this study...

The objective of the paper is to provide an estimative of the impacts that changes in international prices of agricultural commodities will have on income distribution and poverty in Brazil. To do so, a Social Accounting Matrix is constructed and applied, using a Leontief-Miyazawa model...

Portuguese Abstract: Este artigo tem como objetivo principal a identificação das relações econômicas entre os setores localizados nas regiões Ceará, resto do Nordeste e resto do Brasil no ano de 1999. Para alcançar este objetivo foi construído um modelo interregional de insumo produto,...