The recent trend of development policy makes emphasis on gender disparity in performance, especially in the agricultural sector whereby women partake and play a crucial role and their contribution to the sector cannot be overemphasized. However, the contention is whether such disparity in...

The recent trend of development policy makes emphasis on gender disparity in performance, especially in the agricultural sector whereby women partake and play a crucial role and their contribution to the sector cannot be overemphasized. However, the contention is whether such disparity in...

The use of location quotients for the estimation of regional input-output tables has been found to be a useful and efficient tool to estimate intraregional production coefficients and multipliers. This paper considers some regionalisation methodologies based on location quotients for the...

This paper tries to test wether an equalized productive sector change of a Brazilian indirect tax (in Portuguese, Imposto sobre Produtos Industrializados - IPI or, in English, Manufacturing Goods Tax) impacts the labour productivity of each sector. The conclusion is the following: there is no...

This paper tries to test wether an equalized productive sector change of a Brazilian indirect tax (in Portuguese, Imposto sobre Produtos Industrializados - IPI or, in English, Manufacturing Goods Tax) impacts the labour productivity of each sector. The conclusion is the following: there is no...