Crescimento econÃmico, abertura comercial e bem-estar no Brasil / Economic growth, commercial opening and well-being in Brazil

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2003

RESUMO

The imbalance between well-being measures and productive capacity of the Brazilian states, in the period between 1986 and 1998, is investigated in this work. The study is composed three assays with distinct objectives and methodology. Inicially, measures of efficiency in the well-being generation are stimated using the methodology know as data envolpment analysis - DEA. After this, with use of panel data, the relation between the relative endowment of production factors, economic opening and the inequality in the distribution of the income was investigated. Finally, from the definition of measure of poverty incidence, the effect of the economic growth and the reduction of the inaquality on the poverty are estimated. Between the main results, it was verified that the inefficiency in distributing income is bigger of the one than the productive inefficiency of the Brazilian states. However, in average, the efficiency in generating well-being increased in the amostral period. It was esteem existence of negative relation between endowment of human capital and economic opening with the concentration of the income. How much to the poverty, elasticities had been esteem income-poverty and concentration-poverty. It was verified that the elasticity concentration-poverty is bigger of the one than the elasticity income-poverty. Moreover, the elasticity income-poverty increases with the desconcentraÃÃo of the income and the elasticity concentration-poverty is increasing in relation to the income level.

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commercial openness and welfare economic growth crescimento economico economia dos recursos humanos abertura comercial bem estar

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