CoPS and Brazil

During the last 20 years CoPS has enjoyed many collaborations with Brazilian academics, beginning in the mid-1990s with links to Professor Eduardo Haddad at the University of São Paulo. Haddad and his team constructed the B-MARIA CGE model of Brazil, based on the CoPS MMRF model.

The current phase began with a year-long visit to CoPS by Professor Joaquim Bento de Souza Ferreira Filho (of ESALQ, USP, Piracicaba) in 2002, when he constructed a large CGE model of Brazil. Professor Mark Horridge of CoPS made a 3-month return visit to Piracicaba in 2004. Since then Horridge and Ferreira Filho have met most years, in Brazil, Australia or elsewhere, to work on Brazilian CGE models based on the TERM framework. A number of Brazilian academics and graduate students have spent up to a year at CoPS. The Practical GE Modelling Course was presented in São Paulo (2006) and again in Brasilia (2018).

The collaborations have led to several journal articles and working papers, mostly focused on the regional, distributional and ecological consequences of Brazilian economic policies. They include:

• Climate change impacts on agriculture and internal migrations in Brazil, in Madden, J., Shibusawa, H., and Higano, Y. (eds.), Environmental Economics and Computable General Equilibrium Analysis, New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asia Perspectives, Singapore: Springer (2020).
• Closing the Yield Gap in Livestock Production in Brazil: New Results and Emissions Insights , in Madden, J., Shibusawa, H., and Higano, Y. (eds.), Environmental Economics and Computable General Equilibrium Analysis, New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asia Perspectives, Singapore: Springer (2020).
• Biome composition in deforestation deterrence and GHG emissions in Brazil . Centre of Policy Studies Working Paper G-274, Victoria University (2020).
• The Expansion of Irrigated Agriculture in Brazil and Potential Regional Limitations in Glyn Wittwer (Ed.), Economy-Wide Modeling of Water at Regional and Global Scales, Springer (2019)
• Controlling deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Regional economic impacts and land-use change Land Use Policy 64 (2017) 327-341
• Land Use Change, Ethanol Production Expansion and Food Security in Brazil In: Khanna M., Zilberman D. (eds) Handbook of Bioenergy Economics and Policy: Volume II. Natural Resource Management and Policy, vol 40. Springer, New York, NY (2017)
• Deforestation Control and Agricultural Supply in Brazil American Journal of Agricultural Economics, March 2015
• Ethanol Expansion and Indirect Land Use Change in Brazil Land Use Policy, 2014
• Brazilian Structural Adjustment to Rapid Growth in Fuel Ethanol Demand Studies in Regional Science, Vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 189-207, 2009
• Economic Integration, Poverty and Regional Inequality in Brazil, Revista Brasileira de Economia (Brazilian Economic Review), Vol. 60 (4), 2006.
• The Doha Development Agenda and Brazil: Distributional Impacts Review of Agricultural Economics, 2006
• Endogenous land use and supply, and food security in Brazil (working paper)
• The Downside of Domestic Substitution of Oil with Biofuels: Will Brazil Catch the Dutch Disease? (working paper)
• Climate change impacts on agriculture and internal migrations in Brazil (working paper)

Preliminary versions of some of the above papers can be downloaded via Working Papers 229, 218, 169 and 149. Related technical material appears in Archive Items TPMH0144, TPMH0130, TPMH0113, TPJB0095 and PPJB0078.

CoPS also collaborates with the CEDEPLAR Regional Studies Centre in the Federal University of Minas Gerais, see for example this PDF.

During 2018 CoPS worked with the CNI (Confederação Nacional da Indústria) to present a training course, and to analyse the effects of proposed tariff reductions.

CGE places in Brazil: right-click to see bigger image