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de la création d'une coopérative de producteurs associée à la Petrobras dans un programme de production de biodiesel. Il …
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L'objectif du programme national de Biodiesel lancé par le gouvernement fédéral brésilien en 2004 est de développer la … production du biodiesel en relation avec les petits agriculteurs familiaux des régions semi-arides et à partir de plantes qui n …
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This article depicts the improvement in living conditions for those families of peasants (the “landless peasants”) who have benefited from agrarian reform (termed “assentamentos” i.e. homesteads) through the creation of farming cooperatives. The farming cooperative examined herein was...
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We review the theoretical and empirical economic literature upon income inequality in emerging countries. We firstly describe the main observed de velopments and show that these are rather diverse across countries and developing regions. We subsequently expose the main theoretical mechanisms. We...
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This paper describes the multisectoral macroeconomic model of a small developing economy in transition, in order to highlight linkages between agriculture and the rest of the economy, and consequences of external opening up. Agriculture is a supply sector, sticky in the short range with market...
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from development issues. In addition to the impossibility to get an agreement on rules for quota allocation among all the … parties, this system shows irreconcilable contradictions between climate and development issues. This article aims, starting … from examples of synergies between climate and development, at enunciating bases of an amended Kyoto Protocol which could …
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ones. Second, development is a qualitative process that involves take-offs and thresholds. Such regime changes are eye …-income countries, they would certainly help measuring and monitoring the different stages and dimensions of the development process. …
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This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced positive income growth over the last forty years, in particular in developed countries. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that...
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In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality has dropped in countries that have experienced income growth (but not in those that did not). Modern growth has reduced the share of both the "very unhappy" and the "perfectly...
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This paper questions the Lewis Path perspective of a "world without agriculture" which underpins the "structural transformation" paradigm of "modern growth." It shows that the Lewis Path is only one of four potential structural paths, and that half of the world's population is spiralling into a...
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