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Recent exchanges in the literature on the identification and role of key sectors in national and regional economies have highlighted the difficulties of consensus regarding terminology, appropriate measurement as well as economic interpretation. In this paper, some new perspectives are advanced...
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Despite the advances in recent years in areas as education and combat to the poverty, Brazil continues to have one of … the worst income distributions in the world. Nowadays, in a list with 126 countries and territories, Brazil has the 10th …
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From the late 1980s onward, the Brazilian automotive industry has undergone significant change as it has embraced trade liberalization and growing inward FDI. Using an inter-regional input-output model, this paper analyses the evolution of the industry from a spatial perspective. It is shown...
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This paper aims at describing the regional configuration of 1959 Brazil's productive structure through the estimation … of an Inter-State Input-Output system. The estimated matrix is the oldest of this kind for Brazil. It can, hence, be an …
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We use a novel and more precise data set on greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the Amazon region to estimate the nexus between local economic indicators and GHGs. We find that urbanization and waste generation emerge as new and important drivers of observed methane emissions. Local nitrous...
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This paper presents the results of a research conducted to measure the importance of the oil and gas complex in the Brazilian economy and in its states, henceforth called O&G. Initially, the efforts were concentrated on the construction of an interregional input-output system for the 27 states...
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for the external trade of Brazil and its macro regions, with their principal partners in the international market, it was … possible to verify that the theorem was valid for all the 30 relations of trade observed. Brazil and its macro regions have …-Ohlin theorem in 27 cases, the exceptions are found in the trade between: a) Brazil and Mercosur; b) Southeast region and Mercosur …
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scene, Brazil is one of the main combustible alcohol producers in the world, withholds the production technology …
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China and Brazil are two countries with continental dimensions, with differences in availability of natural resources … consistently a strategy of Export Led Growth (ELG), while Brazil, until the mid 1990s had a strategy based on Import Substitution … Industrialization (ISI) with a relatively closed economy to the external market; however, recently Brazil has been switching to a more …
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The aim of this paper is estimate how important is agriculture and familiar agriculture agribusiness for Brazil and its … states. To do so, the GDP for the agribusiness of these complexes is estimated for Brazil and for its 27 states. The …
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