Brazilian agriculture, despite notable growth in recent years and having been responsible for a significant portion of trade surpluses, presents strong spatial heterogeneity. This paper analyzes Brazilian agriculture spatially and structurally, differentiating between permanent and temporary...

What is an indicator? Seemingly, the solution is so clear that it can deceive us, economists and other social scientists. This work aims at enlightening the answer to the suggested question, discussing the methodological dimensions of the economic indicators – since the phase of production...

Due to its natural resources, the Brazilian economy has been able, at the same time, to provide the needs of the internal market of agricultural an agroindustrial products as well as of playing a major role in the international market for some agricultural and agroindustrial products. However,...

From the study "Family Farming in the Economy: Brazil and Rio Grande do Sul" published in 2005 by NEAD - Nucleus of Agrarian Studies and Rural Development Ministry of Agrarian Development, the perception of the importance of family agriculture in the economy has gained special dimension, which...

The research has as main objective to carry out a structural analysis of the economy of Pará, filling a gap in research on the region. The analysis, which includes the relations of the state of Para with the rest of the country, was enabled by the construction of input-output matrix of the...

The knowledge of the transport infrastructure is essential to define development strategies, especially in countries with continental dimensions like Brazil. Information about the spatial distribution of the economic agents and its commercial transactions allow the creation of specific regional...

The goals of the study were to calculate the employment multiplier of net salary, production and rates of inter-sectoral linkages and structural transformation of the sectors of the Brazilian economy from 1990-2003 from the input-output matrix.The results can be divided into three periods: the...

The aim of this study was to analyse the distribution of the multiplier effect of production trigged by the variation of final sectorial demand and to estimate the overflowing effect of production and employment of the input-output inter-regional system formed by the regions Paraná, Santa...

This work analyses the impacts of the implementation of transportation infrastructure projects over the regional and national economic growth. The methodological framework consists in the integration of a transportation model with an interregional applied general equilibrium model. The...

In 1996, the agricultural cooperatives in Paraná were responsible for 55% of the state's agriculture GDP , and they act in the food industry. Analyze the evolution of industry structure of the state in 1990 and 1995, considering explicitly the Agricultural sector and the components of the Food...