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标题：Subsidies and Cattle Production in the Amazon: An Economic Policy Analysis
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作者：McClain, Emily A. ; Halbrendt, Catherine ; Sherbourne, Jennifer 等
期刊名称：Journal of Agribusiness
印刷版ISSN：0738-8950
出版年度：1992
期号：suppl
页码：183-190
出版社：Journal of Agribusiness
摘要：Cattle 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.