Author: William Hord NichollsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land reform
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
An Analysis of the Agricultural Economy of Northeastern Brazil
Author: William Hord NichollsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land reform
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
The Agricultural Economy of Northeast Brazil
Author: Gary P. KutcherPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Northeast problem is one of massive economic and social disparity, compounded by an apparent intractability. This study focuses on the agricultural sector. Formulation of agricultural policy has been difficult and disappointing to a large degree as a result of the diversity in farming systems and in production and marketing patterns. Therefore, the study identifies seven distinct physiographic zones. It distinguishes different groups in the agricultural labor force according to tenurial arrangements that affect their access to land. Discussion of agricultural production leads to the suggestion that the product mix, which is inferior and locally consumed, contributes to the region's stagnation. Farm incomes are highly skewed, depending partly on farm size and partly on location. It appears that the large farm sector is not using resources efficiently. Labor is perhaps the only factor for which markets, delivery systems, and mobility are sufficient to balance demand and supply. A linear programming model provides a consistent quantitative framework within which to identify the factors constraining development and to simulate effects of policy interventions. Land reform emerges as the most likely prerequisite for solving the Northeast problem.
The Impact of a New Economic Activity on Regional Development
Author: Eduardo Lacerda RamosPublisher:
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Category : Brazil, Northeast
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
The central objective of this study is to understand the economic impact of a new economic activity, sponsored by government, on a subregion* within a country. This subject is inherently important from the standpoint of economic development or regional development, for it deals with problems of people where they are, in the local communities. Economic development of subregions, however, has been relegated to a secondary position in the literature on economic development or regional development. The literature has been concerned mostly with countries and large regions within a country. Studies on subregions can provide information on which the theories of economic development or regional development may be tested and/or reviewed. Furthhermore, policy recommendations on a subregional leval are more suitable to the particularitics of a local community and consequently more reliable, than recommendations for larger or more abstract spatial units (states, national regions, countries).
The Logic of Poverty
Author: Simon MitchellPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040026303
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
First published in 1981, The Logic of Poverty consists of eight essays that share at least one assumption: that Northeast Brazil provides a startling example of inhumane economic development. The contributors have all worked in the area, and know it at first hand. They look at rural structure and the role of the unemployed ‘reserve army’, the state of the sugar industry, the ineffectiveness of the irrigation schemes, the stagnation in the fishing sector, the lack of credit available to peasants and the role of SUDENE, the first development agency in the region. Together they paint a picture of poverty and of the factors that allow it to continue, and they place that poverty in the context of the wider economy of Brazil, relating it to the extraordinary transformation that has been called ‘the Brazilian miracle’. This book will be of interest to students of geography, anthropology, economics and sociology.
The Agricultural Economy of Northeast Brazil
Author: G. M. CalegarLand Tenure and Economic Performance of Agricultural Establishments in Northeast Brazil
Author: Michael Dean SundPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Brazil's Minimum Price Policy and the Agricultural Sector of Northeast Brazil
Author: Roger W. FoxPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN: 0896290107
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Policy background; Historical overview of the minimum price program; Performance of the minimum price program in the northeas; Factors influencing program participation.
Economic Development in North-east Brazil
Author: Stefan Hyman RobockPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brazil, Northeast
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Agricultural Development in Brazil
Author: Edmond MissiaenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Author: Ednaldo Da Silva