Economic nature of a natural catastrophe: characteristics and impact of the 1979-80 northeastern drought

Clóvis Cavalcanti ()

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 1986, vol. 6, issue 1, 85-100

Abstract: The paper assesses the socio-economic nature of the 1979/80 drought in theNortheast on the basis of a survey conducted by the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation. It purportsto show the essence of the difficulties that drought brings to the population of its officialvictims – those enrolled in the Emergency Program coordinated by SUDENE, a sampleof which was interviewed. A conclusion of the study reveals that the effects of a drought aremore intense, the poorer the affected social strata. Another conclusion indicates that the officialrefugees’ production of subsistence crops had a decline of around 70 percent in 1978/80. JEL Classification: Q54; Q25; Q15.

Keywords: drought; land ownership; agricultural output (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1986
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://centrodeeconomiapolitica.org.br/repojs/ind ... ticle/view/1782/1768 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ekm:repojs:v:6:y:1986:i:1:p:85-100:id:1782

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Brazilian Journal of Political Economy from Center of Political Economy
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Brazilian Journal of Political Economy (Brazil) ().