This study quantifies the significant economic gains that are expected to be revealed through the abolition or relaxation of local content based policies. The work analyses two specific local content policies affecting directly or indirectly the shipbuilding industry in two countries: Brazil’s...

The state programs for low income housing in Brazil started in the 1930s, and most recently the well-advertised program "My House, My Life" by the Federal government had on its goals to improve the quality of life of poor people, to reduce the housing deficit and to foster the economy. The...

O objetivo deste estudo foi estimar o impacto potencial da adoção das principais técnicas de agricultura de precisão na agricultura brasileira sobre fatores econômicos do país. Para isso, inicialmente realizou-se uma revisão bibliográfica dos principais resultados advindos das técnicas...

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...