Geographic Patterns Of Land Use And Intensity In The Brazilian Amazon
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Author | : Kenneth M. Chomitz |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Agricultura - Brasil |
ISBN | : |
Nearly 90 percent of agricultural land in the Brazilian Amazon is used for pasture, or has been cleared and left unused. Pasture on average is used with very low productivity. Analysis based on census tract data shows that agricultural conversion of forested areas in the wetter western Amazon would be even less productive, using current technologies.
Author | : Kenneth M. Chomitz |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Agricultura - Brasil |
ISBN | : |
Nearly 90 percent of agricultural land in the Brazilian Amazon is used for pasture, or has been cleared and left unused. Pasture on average is used with very low productivity. Analysis based on census tract data shows that agricultural conversion of forested areas in the wetter western Amazon would be even less productive, using current technologies.
Author | : Kenneth M. Chomitz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Nearly 90 percent of agri ...
Author | : Kenneth M. Chomitz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Agricultural productivity |
ISBN | : |
Nearly 90 percent of agricultural land in the Brazilian Amazon is used for pasture, or has been cleared and left unused. Pasture on average is used with very low productivity. Analysis based on census tract data shows that agricultural conversion of forested areas in the wetter western Amazon would be even less productive, using current technologies.
Author | : Lee J. Alston |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2010-05-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0472024280 |
The Amazon, the world's largest rain forest, is the last frontier in Brazil. The settlement of large and small farmers, squatters, miners, and loggers in this frontier during the past thirty years has given rise to violent conflicts over land as well as environmental duress. Titles, Conflict, and Land Use examines the institutional development involved in the process of land use and ownership in the Amazon and shows how this phenomenon affects the behavior of the economic actors. It explores the way in which the absence of well-defined property rights in the Amazon has led to both economic and social problems, including lost investment opportunities, high costs in protecting claims, and violence. The relationship between land reform and violence is given special attention. The book offers an important application of the New Institutional Economics by examining a rare instance where institutional change can be empirically observed. This allows the authors to study property rights as they emerge and evolve and to analyze the effects of Amazon development on the economy. In doing so they illustrate well the point that often the evolution of economic institutions will not lead to efficient outcomes. This book will be important not only to economists but also to Latin Americanists, political scientists, anthropologists, and scholars in disciplines concerned with the environment. Lee Alston is Professor of Economics, University of Illinois, and Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research. Gary Libecap is Professor of Economics and Law, University of Arizona, and Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research. Bernardo Mueller is Assistant Professor, Universidade de Brasilia.
Author | : Scott J. Wallsten |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Government monopolies |
ISBN | : |
For many countries, recent reforms in telecommunications represent a restoration of the private provision and competition that prevailed in the early part of the 20th century. At that time, just as today, telephone service in countries with competing private providers was superior to service in countries with a state-owned monopoly.
Author | : Hiau Looi Kee |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Productivity and factor endowments both play an important role in growth in Singapore's manufacturing industries. But productivity is more important as a source of growth in the electronics industry, while factor endowments make a larger contribution in other industries.
Author | : Fiona Woolf |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Competition |
ISBN | : |
Policymakers wishing to introduce wholesale competition into the electricity industry must often reconcile existing independent power producer contracts with new market structures and trading arrangements. For the new market arrangements to bring the benefits of competition to consumers, enough participants must be willing to take market risk. A combination of measures (adaptation of specific market rule, contractual alternatives for enhancing market liquidity, contract buyout provisions, transitional mechanisms) offer promise for reconciling existing contracts with new market structures and reducing the magnitude of above-market costs associated with the contracts.
Author | : |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Bank assets |
ISBN | : |
Foreign banks are playing an increasingly large role in many developing countries, holding more than 50 percent of banking assets in several of these countries. But important issues about foreign bank entry continue to be debated.
Author | : Raymond Fisman |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Credit |
ISBN | : |
Where do firms turn for financing in countries with poorly developed financial markets? One source is trade credit. And where formal financial intermediaries are deficient, industries that rely more on this source of financing grow faster.