Maria José Palma Lampreia Dos-Santos

Maria José Palma Lampreia Dos-Santos
ISCTE- University Institute of Lisbon - DINÂMIA´CET and ESCS - Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa · ORCID 0000-0002-1992-0419

PhD Economics
Associate Professor Escola Superior de Comunicação Social - Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Researcher ISCTE-IUL -DIN

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Introduction
Maria Dos Santos is currently an Associate Professor at ESCS and a Researcher at the ISCTE-Institute University of Lisbon- DINÂMIA´CET. She is a Portuguese Delegate of COST Action supported by the European Commission. She was/is an External Evaluator of the European Commission - HORIZON EUROPE and before was Special Advisor in Agricultural Economics at the Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020. Maria Dos-Santos is an active member in the publications Applied Economics in Q1 (Top 5)/other
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Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon
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  • Resercher
September 2017 - present
The COST Association Avenue Louise 149 1050 Brussels Belgium
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  • Committee Member PT in Action Action CA16230
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  • Is in charge of implementing, supervising and coordinating the activities of the Action.
October 2015 - present
The COST Association Avenue Louise 149 1050 Brussels Belgium
Position
  • Committee Member PT in Action FA1305- COST
Description
  • Is in charge of implementing, supervising and coordinating the activities of the Action.

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Publications (122)
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The main purpose of this paper is evaluating the competitiveness of the Alqueva irrigation project in the Alentejo region, South of Portugal. This study was based on three representative farms which were selected from one farm sample of the Monte Novo irrigation scheme. For each farm, it was developed a multi-period mathematical programming model w...
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Aquaponics is an innovative sustainable method for the simultaneous production of vegetables and fish, enabling localized inland fish farming and vegetable cultivation without the need for artificial fertilizers. To assess the potential development of commercial aquaponics in Europe, a group of European stakeholders and experts were interviewed to...
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Aquaponics is an innovative and potentially sustainable method of producing vegetables and fish, enabling local, inland fish production, and vegetable production without the need for artificial fertilization. With the aim to analyze the potential development of commercial aquaponics in Portugal, a group of Portuguese stakeholders and experts were i...
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The cork oak (Quercus suber L.) woodlands, known as montados in Portugal, hold significant economic, cultural, social, and environmental value. They are found in the Mediterranean Sea basin, particularly in the Iberian Peninsula, and sustain various activities like silvopastoralism, with cork being a primary product. Despite its economic significan...
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The present paper analyses attitudes and perceptions regarding climate change (CC) among European citizens, emphasizing their pivotal role in fostering public engagement and endorsement towards the advancement of mitigatory measures and sustainable lifestyles in accordance with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. This study delves in...
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La irrupción de la inteligencia artificial generativa: Desafíos y oportunidades en el periodismo y la regulación europea Resumen La inteligencia artificial generativa (IAG) ha transformado profundamente la tecnología, integrándose en la vida cotidiana a través de herramientas como ChatGPT y Gemini. Esta evolución ha facilitado procesos en sectores...
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Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) is a technology highlighted as one of the tools in climate change mitigation and one of the ways to reach the goal of 1.5 set by the Paris Agreement. The European Commission (EC) developed this goal by creating and implementing the European Green Deal (EGD)-the European Union's (EU) environmental policy...
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Despite the significant growth in consumer boycotts, research has devoted insufficient attention to the institutional factors that may motivate consumers to engage in such behaviour. This article aims to address this research gap. The main objective is to analyse the factors that affect consumer boycotts from an institutional sustainability perspec...
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Cork oak data from questionnaires in Alentejo Portugal
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Attitudes and perceptions about climate change (CC) are crucial to public engagement and support in promoting mitigating actions and sustainable lifestyles embracing the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. This study analyses how worried European citizens are about CC and their willingness to assume self-responsibility in its mitigation...
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The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is crucial in ensuring food safety and security in Europe. Providing a stable and diverse food supply also supports rural economies and promotes social, environmental and economic sustainability. However, as CAP consumes approximately 30% of the EU budget, debates regarding its pertinence have arisen. This paper...
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The scientific community has reached a consensus on humans’ important role as causative agents of climate change; however, branches of society are still sceptical about this. Climate change is a key issue for humanity and only the commitment to change human attitudes and lifestyles, at the global level, can be effective in its mitigation. With this...
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Nowadays, climatic change challenges, consumer expectations, and concerns toward sustainability lead firms to consider responsible strategies for internal marketing and entrepreneurial orientation that contribute to competitive advantage and economic and environmental performance. This paper analyses the direct impact of internal marketing and entr...
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The 2007 financial and economic subprime crisis arising from the collapse of the Lehman Brothers Bank in the USA had severe impacts on all the economic sectors. Journalism in Portugal was highly affected, and the most remarkable impacts led to editorial budget cuts. These cuts led to a drastic decrease in human resources in newsrooms, leading to a...
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The literature has yet to draw firm conclusions regarding the effect of economic globalization on government spending in developing countries in general and Pakistan in particular. This paper tries to overcome this gap on the literature and analyses the impact of globalization and democracy on the aggregate level of Pakistan's social spending from...
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Boycott involves abstention from buying specific products or brands for political, ethical, or ecological reasons. Boycott is usually framed as an expression of political consumerism and has been on the rise. Companies that suffer a boycott may endure severe consequences including long-term damaged brand image and harmed reputation. However, there...
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Boycotting involves abstention from buying specific products or brands for political, ethical, or ecological reasons. Boycott is usually framed as an expression of political consumerism and has been on the rise. Companies that suffer a boycott may endure severe consequences including long-term damaged brand image and harmed reputation. However, the...
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The scientific community has reached a consensus on humans’ important role as causative agents of climate change; however, branches of society are still skeptical about this. Climate change is a key issue for humanity and only the commitment to change human attitudes and lifestyles, at the global level, can be effective in its mitigation. With this...
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Institutional sustainability is a dynamic and multifaceted concept that relies on the contributions of various institutions, including the legal and the scientific system. On the other side, consumers boycotts are an expression of political consumerism by which consumers can use their market power to attain sustainability objectives. This article e...
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The main aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of the pandemic COVID-19 on the efficiency of capital markets in countries of South Asia, namely, the market efficiency of these stock markets in the pre and post-COVID-19 global wave. The methods include quantitative research and time series analysis. Information and data were collected from the...
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This paper aims to analyze the impact of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor on the volatility of the Pakistan Stock Exchange and Shanghai Stock Exchanges, namely, to explore the pre and post-impact China investments in Pakistan in the energy sector on the stock exchanges of the respective countries. The methods used include an econo-metric analys...
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Attitudes and perceptions about climate change (CC) are crucial to public engagement and support in the promotion of mitigating actions and sustainable lifestyles embracing the United Nations’ sustainable development goals. This study aimed to investigate how worried are European citizens about CC, and what is their willingness to assume self-respo...
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This study explores cross-cultural differences in consumers’ attitudes toward farm animal welfare (FAW) in BRIC countries. Questionnaires administered in each country contained the following questions: (i) “It is important to me that animals used for food are well cared for”, (ii) “The typical nationality thinks it is important that animals used fo...
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The research aim was to evaluate the Portuguese honey consumers’ profile, their attitudes, perceptions, and trends towards the product, production, and consumption, to allow the development of marketing strategies. With this purpose, a questionnaire was developed in accordance with the Ajzen's Planned Behaviour Theory and was then completed by 784...
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The towards the product, production, and consumption, to allow the development of marketing strategies. With this purpose, a questionnaire wa 784 interviewees. Portuguese honey shows to have good reputation, and it is preferred in relation to imported honey. The Portuguese consumer is not completely aware of the different floral characteristics of...
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Climate change and global warming become great policy issues in the world in general and in agricultural production in particular due to the full dependence of these activities on climate conditions. Economic agricultural activities produce not only desirable outputs (e.g., food) but also undesirable outputs (e.g., CO2 and methane emission, etc.)....
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The cities around the world in general, and in the Mediterranean area in particular, are facing tremendous challenges at the environmental, social, economic, and institutional levels, due to the urbanization trend, environmental climatic changes and challenges due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, cities need to be sustainable and smart...
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The cities around the world in general and in Mediterranean area in particular are facing tremendous challenges at the environmental, social, economic and institutional levels, due the urbanization trend, the environmental climatic changes and challenges due the ongoing pandemic COVID 19. Therefore, cities need to be sustainable and smart in the fu...
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Nowadays, the world in general and cities in particular are facing tremendous challenges at the environmental, social, economic and institutional levels. Currently, cities need to be sustainable and smart. An economic important and innovative sector at urban areas is food security. As our better knowledge, the majority of the literature, explores t...
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Sustainable development, sustainable consumption and short supply chains are nowadays acquiring increasing relevance on the literature. On the other hand, from the consumers attitudinal statement, ethical consumption is also requiring more attention from marketing sciences. Besides that, the integration of the last concept on sustainability remains...
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Virtually all sub-regions of the Mediterranean Basin, on land and in the sea, are impacted by recent anthropogenic changes in the environment. The main drivers of change include climate (temperature, precipitation, atmospheric circulation, extreme events, sea-level rise, sea water temperature, salinity and acidification), population increase, pollu...
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Sustainable development seeks to address the needs of current and future generations with the objective of increasing well-being by balancing economic, social and environmental dimensions. Current unsustainable development patterns, such as poverty, increasing population pressure, agricultural intensification, land degradation, and air, land, river...
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The main aim of this paper is to forecast the future values of the exchange rate of the USD. Dollar (USD) and Pakistani Rupee (PR). For this purpose was used the ARIMA model to forecast the future exchange rates, because the time series was stationary at first difference. Data reported to five years ranging from the first day of April 2014 to 31st...
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The glaring importance of the stock market and the frequency of transaction involved therein have prompted the research community to make sophisticated predictions related to its components. In such a situation, the most highlighted variable is the market value of the share. Increasing, the prediction is made to spotlight a model that could give in...
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Aquaponics is an agricultural practice recognized as innovative and sustainable by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Aquaponics is experiencing a period of rapid interest by the scientific community, public decision-makers, start-ups and new generation of farmers and businessmen. In the United States, aquaponics veg...
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European agricultural activity has an important contribution to European and global food security and also in the preservation of countryside and livelihood. The main goal of this paper is to analyze the agricultural sustainability of the twenty-eight Member States of the European Union in order to promote sustainable agriculture, food security and...
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This paper aims to assess the degree to which sustainability, namely, economic, social, environmental and institutional dimensions are integrated within the public discourse on crowdfunding in social media and in Google Trends. The utilizing Social Media Analytics and Google Trends search queries, respectively, we track discussions on crowdfunding...
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Aquaponics, the combined rearing of fish and hydroponic horticulture, has great potential for sustainable food production. Despite increasing research and investments in commercial scale systems, aquaponics is not yet a successful industry and most businesses report negative returns. Aquaponic produce is thought to contain added value to the consum...
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The main results highlight the impact of corporate R&D on productivity of high-tech industries, but for other industries those relations are not clear. However, capital accumulation became crucial on low technology to improve their performance. These results, although needing to include a more extensive data set of industries across countries, refe...
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This research study show performance comparison of the Net Asset Values (NAVs) return of Open-ended and Close-ended mutual funds in Pakistan. The aim of the study to analyze the dissimilarity between the "net asset values" (NAVs) returns of the open-ended and close-ended mutual funds. The monthly data of Net Asset Value return of both open-ended fu...
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The subprime crisis from 2007 and the availability of free news on the Internet led to a drastic decrease of investigative journalism in Portugal. Crowdfunding could be an alternative to traditional models of financing investigative journalism. The present paper aims to analyze the crowdfunding for financing investigative journalism in that country...
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Aquaponics is nowadays a sustainable practice of producing food with a short supply chain and with a very interesting need for development towards the sustainable production of foods. The main aim of this paper is to analyses the present situation of aquaponics in terms of commercial development and to define the main strategies to be overcome in o...
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Resumo A política agrícola europeia tem-se alterado ao longo dos anos, integrando a parte ambiental, que se concretiza na agricultura na produção de modo biológico (MPB). Por um lado, estão os consumidores procurando alimentos saudáveis-com qualidade a preços acessíveis. Por outro lado, estão os produtores agrícolas, que veem os seus mercados satur...
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Aquaponics represents nowadays an innovation in agricultural systems of production and supply food which combines aquaculture fish production with hydroponic production of vegetables, that can contribute to feed an increasing population at the world level, with less inputs in a sustainable way of production and supply. Besides the high development...
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A sustentabilidade da atividade agrícola na Europa desempenha um papel crucial na segurança alimentar europeia e mundial, assim como na manutenção e na preservação do mundo rural e no seu desenvolvimento sustentável. Apesar disso, são muito restritos e incompletos os estudos que analisam a sustentabilidade das explorações agrícolas dos países que c...
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RESUMO: O principal objetivo deste estudo é analisar os níveis de eficiência das explorações de produção de bovinos de carne em Portugal, nas regiões do Alentejo e Beira Interior e identificar a sua relação com as características das explorações agrícolas e com as suas práticas de gestão de forma a melhorar a sua eficiência. A metodologia baseia-se...
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As the world’s population grows, the demands for increased food production expand, and as the stresses on resources such as land, water and nutrients become ever greater, there is an urgent need to find alternative, sustainable and reliable methods to provide this food. The current strategies for supplying more produce are neither ecologically soun...
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The paper presents the main challenges to be overcoming in order in the future cities we have sustainable and smart cities in Africa. The analysis highlines confirm the existence of huge challenges, problems and restriction about social, economics, and environmental and political issues in Africa. This paper analysing the main constraints to urban...
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European agricultural activity plays an important role in European and world food security through the agricultural production, supply and international trade. The main aim of this paper was analyses the agricultural sustainability of the twenty-nine Member States of the European Union in terms of economics, environmental, social and political acti...
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AVALIAÇÃO DA SUSTENTABILIDADE NAS EMPRESAS AGRÍCOLAS EUROPEIAS Grupo de Pesquisa: GT12. Política agrícola e políticas públicas de desenvolvimento rural Resumo A atividade agrícola europeia desempenha um papel importante na segurança alimentar europeia e mundial através da produção agrícola, do fornecimento e do comércio internacional. O principal o...
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O presente artigo apresenta o estudo de caso inovador do ponto de vista metodológico e didático sobre a investigação desenvolvida na unidade curricular(UC) de Economia Social e do Desenvolvimento, lecionado no ano letivo de 2015/2016 (primeiro ano em funcionamento deste ciclo de estudos), no Doutoramento em Estudos em Comunicação para o Desenvolvim...
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Aquaponics, an innovation in agricultural systems of production and food supply which combines aquaculture fish production with hydroponic production of vegetables, represents a valuable option to overcome the food needs of a constantly increasing world population, it can do so by improving production and supply with less inputs and in a sustainabl...
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European agriculture plays an important role in European and world food security through the agricultural production, supply and international trade. The main aim of this paper was analyses the agricultural sustainability of the twenty-nine Member States of the European Union in terms of economics, environmental, social and political activity. Info...
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O novo Sistema de Normalização Contabilístico, em vigor a partir de 2010, veio revogar todo o normativo contabilístico português. Em comparação com o normativo anterior, este novo normativo veio preconizar procedimentos contabilísticos diferentes relativamente à contabilização dos subsídios relacionados com activos. O objetivo deste estudo é analis...
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PEN CALL | STIMULUS OF SCIENTIFIC EMPLOYMENT :::::: Extended Deadline DINÂMIA’CET-IUL will host candidates who wish to apply for the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) Programme Call Stimulus of Scientific Employment. This Call concerns PhD holders (National, Foreign and Stateless) who wish to conduct scientific research in Portug...
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Este trabalho tem como principal objetivo caracterizar e segmentar as explorações agrícolas dos vinte e oito Estados Membros da União Europeia. Para esse efeito, utilizam-se técnicas de análise de cluster de casos e de cluster de explorações. Foram obtidos quatro grupos de explorações nos vinte e oito Estados Membros da União Europeia. Os grupos de...
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Este art?culo tiene como principal objetivo analizar en qu? medida el Pro-yecto Tro i k a de narrativas visuales (2014) contribuy? para dar voz a his-torias de vulnerabilidad y resistencia en Portugal, potenciar a la sociedad portuguesa para el progreso humano y de qu? forma se encuadra en el pe-riodismo para el desarrollo. Adem?s, pretende percibi...
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The first commercial aquaponics companies are starting up in Europe. The main focus has been on solving technology issues and optimizing production. However, increasing attention is now being paid to certification and regulations linked to aquaponics, as well as the marketing of products and services. The paper presents the results of a study whose...
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O turismo é um setor em forte expansão em Portugal e com um importante contributo na economia portuguesa. Por isso, o equilíbrio financeiro das empresas neste setor reveste-se da maior relevância, quer para os agentes económicos, quer para os decisores políticos. Apesar disso, não existem em Portugal trabalhos de investigação que analisem o fracass...
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Efficiency and productivity has always being a key issue in economic science. The analysis of the impact of R&D (Research and Development) has been extensively studied in industries and countries of more or less aggregated level. This paper aims to investigate the impact of corporate R&D in performance of low-tech industries, medium-tech and high-t...
Conference Paper
Efficiency and productivity has always being a key issue in economic science. The analysis of the impact of R&D (Research and Development) has been extensively studied in industries and countries of more or less aggregated level. This paper aims to investigate the impact of corporate R&D in performance of low-tech industries, medium-tech and high-t...
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El presente artículo analiza el crowdfunding aplicado al periodismo de investigación como alternativa a los modelos tradicionales de financiación periodística en Portugal. El principal objetivo es inferir acerca de las potencialidades de desarrollo del crowdfunding como financiación del periodismo de investigación portugués. Para ello, con base en...
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In Portugal, the general adoption of the International Accounting Standards was made under the SNC-Accounting Normalization System, in 2010. The SNC carried out new bookkeeping rules concerning the way government grants related to assets. While in the past these grants were treated as liabilities during the economic life of the asset, now the Accou...
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The Oporto Airport located in the northern region in Porto city is crucial because is the only one located in the northern region. This airport had an increasing in number of passengers, sales revenue and accumulated investment during the last two decades, principally after the introduction and the operation of the Low Cost Companies since 2004 to...
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The economic and financial crisis that has been affecting the world economy since 2008 affected the European countries in different ways. Portugal, a small peripheral country with a widely open economy suffered the consequences derived from the crisis that were amplified by a strong imbalance of the public accounts, large public and private debts,...
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Baseados principalmente na literatura e em dados primários analisamos a estrutura das explorações agrícolas em Portugal e explicamos a dualidade do sistema agrário entre o sul e norte do país, introduzimos um novo conceito de explorações agrícolas de semi-subsistência em Portugal. Depois, analisamos as principais razões dos agregados familiares em...

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