Ely Jose De Mattos

• Dr. in Applied Economics
• Professor at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul

According to the World Bank, poverty affects almost half of the 6 billion inhabitants of the planet. Even presenting a completely distinct reality from many Asiatic and African countries, Brazil has considerable high poverty indicators. The majority of these indicators, however, are grounded on a monetary approach, which has its basis on the neocla...

Resumo Este estudo caracteriza a situação de insegurança alimentar da população gaúcha, analisando sua relação com a renda monetária, mas também relacionando com outros fatores, como condições de moradia e acesso a programas sociais de transferência de renda, diferenciando e tecendo comentários entre os espaços rural e urbano. A insegurança aliment...

The choice between protecting the environment and accelerating economic growth is conditioned by factors pertaining to individual and to political and economic dimensions. This study aims to investigate how those factors influence the preference for environmental protection rather than for economic growth. The findings obtained suggest that a favou...

We investigate the effects of public expenditure on municipal development in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The definition of development adopted is based on the capability approach, and the methodology used is that proposed by Hsiao et al. (J Econom 109(1):107–150, 2002. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0304-4076(01)00143-9), in which dynamic pan...

It is commonly understood that over-arching transcendental values (TVs) play a major role in directly influencing individual and group behaviours, including those relating to the environment. This paper challenges this approach, by arguing that there is good evidence to indicate that personal contexts – rather than TVs – inform many decisions that...

The complexity of the relationship between society and the environment is recognized by researchers and practitioners as a major challenge. This article examines how the type of political regime, the degree of political freedom and civil rights, and the level of income concentration relates to environmental performance as measured by the Environmen...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate, at a national scale, how self-reported happiness varies with the different levels of environmental conditions resulting from national policies, while also considering different levels of freedom. Design/methodology/approach The authors estimated the effects of environmental performance on happin...

In this Special Issue, authors are encouraged to look into the changing people–environment relationships in different contexts of development and transition, in different regions, and from a range of inter-disciplinary perspectives. In particular, we are trying to explore the mechanisms and processes through which people–environment relationships c...

Resumo Este artigo possui como objetivo principal verificar como um grupo de características sociodemográficas afeta a probabilidade de ocorrência de diferentes níveis de insegurança alimentar no Brasil, levando em conta a complexidade informacional oferecida pela Escala Brasileira de Insegurança Alimentar (EBIA). A hipótese que avaliamos, através...

A literatura moderna sobre a relação entre atividade humana e pressão ambiental tem crescido. Uma das abordagens recentes é relacionar o crescimento econômico com a intensidade ecológica do bem-estar humano (EIWB), que é medida através da razão de uma variável de pressão ambiental e uma variável de bem-estar humano. O presente artigo investiga os e...

The recent literature has explored the ambiguous theoretical links between inequality and environmental impact. However, few studies have investigated those links in developing countries. This paper explores the role of income inequality in the per capita emission of CO2 in Latin America. We estimate the impact of income inequality on carbon dioxid...

International trade between the EU and Brazil has a typical North–South composition and, in general, would appear to reflect the principle of comparative advantage. Most of the agri-food trade between the two is inter-industry or one-way in nature. Brazil is the largest of all exporters of agricultural products to the EU, but EU protectionism and t...

Esta revisão bibliográfica apresenta a evolução dos modelos que explicam os diferentes níveis de redistribuição de renda nos países da OECD e América Latina, considerando o papel das crenças sociais da população. As teorias têm início com a ideia do eleitor decisivo e da regra da maioria, exposto no modelo de Meltzer & Richard (1981), além das expl...

Nearly one in six people in Brazil live in rural areas, representing a diverse population facing a variety of challenges that often differ from their urban counterparts. Access to basic food and the alleviation of poverty are key issues in many rural communities and this article provides an overview of the scope of public policies designed to impro...

This study performs a characterization of rural poverty in the states of the Northeast Brazil based on the monetary and multidimensional approaches. The main contribution is to evaluate if monetary poverty reduction in those areas is followed by improvements in other socioeconomic indicators, and if this pattern is observed for poor and non-poor be...

O intento deste artigo é identificar padrões de países que estão, ou não, em uma trajetória direcionada à sustentabilidade ambiental, ao mesmo tempo em que promovem um bem-estar às suas sociedades. Para tal, foram anali-sados os Índices de Desenvolvimento Humano (IDH), a Pegada ecológica (PE) e o Índice de Performance Ambiental (EPI) de 130 nações....

Drivers of environmental impact are commonly studied in the related literature through the IPAT and STIPAT models. The first is an accounting model and the second is a stochastic approach that enables both statistical tests of significance of the drivers and the consideration of a larger set of drivers. These methodologies, however, are unable to t...

This paper aims to apply Rational Choice Theory to legal decisions in actual cases where there are conflict of legal principles. Through the application of concepts and tools from microeconomics, we intend to offer alternatives for reaching optimal solutions in situations where constitutional rights of equal importance and weight are diametrically...

This study analyses the relationships between rural poverty and environmental degradation in Machadinho and Maximiliano de Almeida, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. A database was formed based on 48 interviews with small farmers, including several environmental and socioeconomic indicators. Non-linear regression (Probit) models were estim...

Resumo: O presente estudo analisa as perspectivas para o setor agrícola brasileiro com a formação do acordo UE-Mercosul, em vista das negociações em curso. Para alcançar este objetivo, apresenta-se inicialmente as trajetórias de integração regional e as perspectivas da negociação entre os blocos. A fim de identificar as semelhanças e diferenças ent...