The Brazilian integration strategy has been focused on agreements based upon North-South and South-South negotiations. However, this kind of negotiations face serious troubles to be done. Consequently, the option of the internal economic integration might be more viable in terms of social...

WTO, OECD with many others, suggest the trade in value-added would be a “better” measure to understand the impact of trade on employment, growth, production etc. when import content in exports is important. We use in this work an Input-Output table for 2008, to calculate the value-added...

This paper presents, in Portuguese, an overview of the input-output theory, originally developed by Wassily Leontief. The first and second chapters present the background of the theory of input-output, placing the work of Leontief in a historical view. Chapter 3 presents the basic theory of...

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 inter-regional applied general equilibrium model. The...

Portuguese Abstract: O objetivo deste trabalho foi analisar o efeito dos gastos sociais e de investimentos públicos e privados no desenvolvimento e crescimento da Economia Brasileira. A hipótese básica verificada neste trabalho é que as políticas adotadas pelo governo federal são...

The recent discussions that focused on the problems of the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [GATT] together with the emergence of strengthened and expanded free trade areas [such as NAFTA, European Union and MERCOSUL/MERCOSUR] have created the need for careful analysis...

Portuguese Abstract: Neste artigo é feita uma análise das estruturas de produção, consumo e distribuição de renda no Brasil em 1975 e 1980, através das matrizes ajustadas de insumo-produto para estes anos. Os resultados indicam que: a) o polo dinâmico da economia se encontra nos...

In this paper, two literatures that have explored the structure of economies are brought together. In the first case, the approaches to key sector identification (initially associated with Hirschman and Rasmussen) that were modified by Cella, Clements and Rossi and Guilhoto et al. to reveal what...

In this paper, using a set of interregional input-output tables built by the authors for the year of 1992 for 2 Brazilian regions (Northeast and rest of the economy), attention is focused on a new approach to the interpretation of Miyazawa's concepts of left and right multipliers in the...