Institutional Development and Colonial Heritage within Brazil

Naritomi, Joana; Soares, Rodrigo R.; Assunção, Juliano

doi:10.1017/s0022050712000071

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“…National institutions will be among the forces that shape patterns of regional specialization and relative incomes, partly because they will influence comparative advantage at the national level. But there may also be important local variation in institutions within countries, as Acemoglu and Dell (2010), Naritomi et al (2012) and Tabellini (2010) all emphasize. Its consequences have now been investigated for countries in Africa, Latin America and South Asia.…”

Section: Institutions and Local Political Economymentioning

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Regional Growth and Regional Decline

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Ottaviano

Temple

2014

Handbook of Economic Growth

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Since the early 1990s, there has been a renaissance in the study of regional growth, spurred by new models, methods and data. We survey a range of modelling traditions, and some formal approaches to the 'hard problem' of regional economics, namely the joint consideration of agglomeration and growth. We also review empirical methods and findings based on natural experiments, spatial discontinuity designs, and structural models. Throughout, we give considerable attention to regional growth in developing countries. Finally, we highlight the potential importance of processes that are specific to regional decline, and which deserve greater research attention.

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Section: Institutions and Local Political Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

Regional Growth and Regional Decline

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Ottaviano

Temple

2014

Handbook of Economic Growth

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“…Briefly, according to the authors, factor endowments are central to structural inequality (usually associated to land inequality), which is, in turn, a determinant of bad institutions, low human capital investment and, therefore, underdevelopment 4 . Naritomi et al (2009) present evidence that brazilian municipalities that are associated to colonial rent-2 Tole (2004) analyzes explicitly the relationship between land distribution and deforestation, but in a crosscountry perspective. The author also provides an extensive review of the literature on this subject.…”

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Land inequality and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Sant’Anna

2016

Envir. Dev. Econ.

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The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the relationship between land inequality and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Therefore, it is developed an occupational choice model where an individual decides whether to become a farmer in an already established place or to move in search of economic opportunities and land to clear at the agricultural frontier. This model provides theoretical predictions that are tested empirically. Based on data from 515 municipalities, this paper estimates a Tobit model in order to test the theoretical predictions. Basically, it has been shown that there is little statistical evidence to support the existence of a direct relationship between land inequality and deforestation. Nevertheless, when one takes into account the effects of land inequality on deforestation through its interaction with credit and land reform policies, it can be shown that the pattern of land distribution, indeed, plays a role for deforestation. There is a positive relationship between credit and deforestation in more unequal places. Furthermore, this paper provides evidence that land reform in more unequal municipalities reduces deforestation. Hence, it is clear that there is a role for government to increase social welfare and reduce deforestation rates.

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“…Brazil experienced two episodes in the colonial period -the sugar cane and gold booms -that influenced the development of institutions in the country (Naritomi et al, 2012). The sugar cane boom arose from the effective colonisation of Brazil from 1570 until Table 4.…”

Section: Regression Analysis: Institutions Ethnic Diversity and Horimentioning

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“…Brazil experienced two episodes in the colonial period -the sugar cane and gold booms -that influenced the development of institutions in the country (Naritomi, Soares, & Assunção, 2012).…”

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Horizontal inequality and ethnic diversity in Brazil: patterns, trends, and their impacts on institutions

Leivas

Santos

2018

Oxford Development Studies

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In this paper, we analyse the patterns and trends of horizontal inequality and ethnic diversity in Brazil in the past 30 years and their effect on the quality of the country's institutions. Using data from the last four demographic censuses (1980, 1991, 2000, and 2010), we estimate numerous measures to analyse inequalities between different 'ethnic' groups. Our results show that, in Brazil between 1980 and 2010, the trend toward greater equality shown in other analyses of vertical inequality, is also found in terms of horizontal inequalities along racial, gender, and regional lines. Nevertheless, horizontal inequalities in terms of race and gender, in particular, remain pronounced. Ethnic diversity regarding race and religion has increased since 1980. Through our regression analysis, we note that both horizontal inequality and ethnic diversity negatively affect the institutional quality of Brazilian municipalities.

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Institutional Development and Colonial Heritage within Brazil

Cited by 106 publications

References 18 publications

Regional Growth and Regional Decline

Regional Growth and Regional Decline

Land inequality and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Horizontal inequality and ethnic diversity in Brazil: patterns, trends, and their impacts on institutions

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