LINKAGES AND INTERDEPENDENCE IN THE BRAZILIAN ECONOMY: AN EVALUATION OF THE INTER-REGIONAL INPUT-OUTPUT SYSTEM, 1985
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.61673/ren.2000.1878Keywords:
Regional Economies, Input-output, Economic Structure, Regional Analysis, BrazilAbstract
This paper describes the structure of the inter-regional input-output system for Brazil, which has been compiled as part of the development of an inter-regional Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model for the country (HADDAD, 1997). The regional setting is comprised of three regional economies: North, Northeast, and Center-South. Traditional input-output methods are used in an attempt to uncover similarities and differences in the structure of the regional economies. By exploring different methods of comparative structure analysis, it is hoped that the complementarity among them might result in a better appreciation of the full dimensions of differences and similarities that exist among the three regions considered in this study in the preliberalization period.




