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Land inequality and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Albuquerque Sant'Anna, André - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the relationship between land inequality and deforestation in the Brazilian … Amazon. Therefore, it is developed an occupational choice model where an individual decides whether to become a farmer in an … statistical evidence to support the existence of a direct relationship between land inequality and deforestation. Nevertheless …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109291
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The development of the brazilian amazon region and greenhouse gases emission: a dilemma to be faced!
Imori, Denise; Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins; David, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) with the ones direct to foster the development of the Brazilian Amazon Region, which is one … the environmental relevance of each sector in the economies of the Amazon region and the rest of Brazil. This study … emissions were due to the land-use change in its different biomes. Moreover, in the Brazilian Amazon region, especially in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025250
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Using Your Ties to Get a Worse Job? The Differential Effects of Social Networks on Quality of Employment in Colombia
Deguilhem, Thibaud - 2018
This article examines the effect of social networks by investigating how mobilizing family, friendship or kindship ties in job searches affects the quality of employment (QoE) using a mixed approach. Drawing from socioeconomic literature on the segmented labor market, the authors propose an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012934201
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Crecimiento Económico de Largo Plazo en Antioquia, Colombia : Estimación del PIB, 1800-1913 (Long Term Economic Growth in Antioquia, Colombia: GDP Estimates, 1800-1913)
Mejia, Javier - 2012
than the average of Colombia. Moreover, we found periods of economic boom between 1800 and 1840, 1860 and 1880, and 1905 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014167721
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Rural Livelihoods, Forest Access and Time Use: A Study of Forest Communities in Northwest India
Naidu, Sirisha C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper investigates the effects of the size of private land holdings and access to forest commons on the labour allocation to livelihood activities. The statistical analysis indicates that land and forests are complementary assets in the rural production process. Differential access to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025306
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Introducing Social Capital Value Add: Manifesto for New Social Network Structural Management of Corporate Value
Michael, Cayley - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Within the field of social capital study, concerns have been expressed that deviations from a fundamental understanding that social capital is captured from embedded resources in social networks may reduce the intellectual enterprise to a catch all fad (Lin, Cook, Burt, 1999). This paper is an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619665
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The Dynamics of Electronic Investment Networks: African Experience
Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Expanding opportunities for people in developing countries is a pressing concern for governments and for the global community. This is because of the fact that nearly half of the world's population lives on less than two dollar a day and one point one billion barely survive on less than one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789692
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The productive structure of the Amazon region states and the rest of Brazil: a comparative study using an interregional input-output system
Anefalos, Lilian Cristina; Filho, Sesso; Antonio, Umberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
There is a scarcity of economic studies about the economy of the Amazon region, and especially about its productive … states of the Amazon region and between them and the rest of Brazil. This study takes as the main source of data an … interregional input-output system consisted of 10 regions (nine Amazon states and the Rest of Brazil region) constructed for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108508
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Regional development and greenhouse gases emission: the case of the Amazon Region
Imori, Denise; Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins; David, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Brazilian Amazon region, especially in the last decades, the deforestation was linked mainly to economic factors than to … emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) with the ones direct to foster the development of the Brazilian Amazon Region, considering …-O model is used to make a comparison between the economical and the environmental relevance of each sector in the Amazon …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109181
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Analysis of the productive structure of the Brazilian Amazon
Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins; Filho, Umberto Antonio … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This study presents an analyze of the productive structure of the Amazon region and the relations that take place among … interregional input-output system, how the economic relations take place in the Amazon region. Then, through a series of … structures among the Amazon Region states. The results show that there is a relative heterogeneity in the productive structure of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109590