The effects associated with stabilization programmes, specially persistent inflation accompanied by prolonged periods of recession with unemployment, attract the attention on the evaluation of the consistency between the orthodox approach and the economic situation which characterizes the...

This paper analyses the impact of increases in the price of two primary products - coffee and cocoa - on the growth of the national and regional economies in Brazil. It aims at explaining the factors that have determined salutary effects in the coffee region and negligible effects in the cocoa...