Despite all the hoopla about the green economy and clean tech, skeptics are beginning to ask questions about the projections of job creation from investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency. Since these projections are used to support public investment in “clean tech” firms via tax...

O estudo buscou avaliar a contribuição do setor transporte para a economia brasileira. Especificamente, pretendeu-se determinar os setores capazes de propagar efeitos sistêmicos acima da média da economia como também mensurar os impactos econômicos na produção, emprego e renda,...

This article looks for measuring and characterizing the milk’s agribusiness ofRio Grande do Sul economy. The methodology used indicators of sectorial performanceand indexes of autonomy of purchases and sales to define the measure of the milk’sagribusiness. The data were extracted of the...

The present article has as objective to calculate and to analyzethe level of the synergic interactions and the overflow of the multiplyingeffect of the sectorial production between Parana and the Rest of Brazil(Brazil except Parana), using interregional systems of input-outputestimated for the...

España se encuentra en una senda hacia la descarbonización de la economía. Esta evolución se debe principalmente a cambios estructurales en la economía, donde los sectores menos intensivos en el uso de energía están ganando peso, y a un mayor uso de fuentes de energía primaria con menor...

In modern economies, taxes levied by governments are the most important source of government revenue. Like any other economic sector, tourism is taxed, but it also benefits from financial resources from the government. However, given its specificity, taxation implies a different approach in...

Over the years, the East-West Center (EWC) has developed considerable expertise in refinery modeling, especially in the area of forecasting product balances for countries, given planned capacity changes, changes in product demand, changes in crude slates, and changes in product specifications....

This paper is concerned with the determinants of international steam-coal trade. Most work in projecting coal trade has been either qualitative (a consensus of experts) or, if quantitative, has been based on competitive spatial-equilibrium models. Unfortunately, the competitive model of trade...

Trade liberalization in Latin America has substantially altered business opportunities andeconomic development in the region. As barriers to competing inputs have come down andforeign investment in the region has gone up, small, domestic firms have struggled to stayafloat. Many small businesses...