Subsidies and Cattle Production in the Amazon: An Economic Policy Analysis

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dc.creatorMcClain, Emily A.
dc.creatorHalbrendt, Catherine
dc.creatorSherbourne, Jennifer
dc.creatorGempesaw, Conrado
dc.date2017-04-01T15:29:43Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-09T08:50:00Z
dc.descriptionCattle production has been a major source of agricultural deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest. Brazilian credit subsidies have been blamed for speeding cattle expansion and thus deforestation. A stochastic coefficients regression approach was used to quantify the effects of credit subsidies and world prices on cattle numbers in five Amazon rigions for the 1963-83 period. Results show that cattle production has been positively correlated to both prices and credit. Elasticities show that these relationships strengthened over time and that production has been more responsive to credit than to world prices.
dc.identifierdoi:10.22004/ag.econ.197874
dc.identifierhttps://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/197874/files/agecon-occpapers-1992-025_1_.pdf
dc.identifierhttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/197874
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/603079
dc.languageeng
dc.publisher
dc.sourcehttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/197874
dc.titleSubsidies and Cattle Production in the Amazon: An Economic Policy Analysis
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