The aim of this paper is estimate how important is agriculture and familiar agriculture agribusiness for Brazil and its states. To do so, the GDP for the agribusiness of these complexes is estimated for Brazil and for its 27 states. The estimation is based on an interregional input-output system...

Income inequalities in Brazil are well known, both in their personal and regional aspects and specific partial studies are abundant. However, few effort was made to integrate the analysis into one sole framework. The purpose of the paper is to decompose total income inequality into three...

Producers and households in developing countries are affected by the prices of products involved in international transactions. The impacts of agricultural policy and structural reforms leading to changes in international prices of goods and services are expected to be differentiated across...

The paper presents an analysis of regional income inequalities in Brazil for the period 1939-1990, based on a data set arranged by the author. Traditional measures of inequality, such as the dispersion of per capita income, are presented together with other measures commonly used in the New...

This paper presents two alternatives for the construction of indexes for the comparison of prices among different regions simultaneously. Both methodologies are applied to 11 Brazilian metropolitan regions, allowing for a comparative analysis. Besides developing a theoretical discussion, the...

The paper describes the econometric input-output model developed by the authors for the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, covering a total of 34 sectors. Equations for final demand, population, and sectoral production and employment were estimated for the period 1970-93. Those were connected to the...

The recent emphasis on fighting poverty in Brazil makes the determination of the size of the targeted population an important issue (What is the right poverty line? What is the real size of the poor population? How much money should be given to each poor family?). The application of poverty...

This study analyses the investment decision of 497 Brazilian firms during a period of unstable macroeconomic conditions. The role of financial constraints is considered in a Bayesian econometric model. We estimate three different models, and the results indicate the presence of financial...