Economia & Região (Dec 2014)

The Minimum Price Guarantee Policy before and after Real Plan

  • Jackelline Favro,
  • Carlos Eduardo Caldarelli,
  • Ana Maria Machado Caravieri

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5433/2317-627x.2014v2n2p65
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 2
pp. 65 – 79

Abstract

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This study aims to analyze the performance of the Minimum Price Guarantee Policy - MPGPin Brazil for the main agricultural products, during the 1980s and 1990s, and especially the post-Real Plan period. The research has a bibliographic and descriptive nature. The main results showed that the MPGP remains an important tool for ensuring income to farmers and the supply of selected crops in the analyzed period, but there was a reduction of public action for the new MPGP and new private instruments has revealed efficiency

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