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Regional Concentration of The Gross Production Value of Firewood in Paraíba

  • Luiz Moreira Coelho Junior,
  • Mariana de Castro Burgos,
  • Edvaldo Pereira Santos Júnior,
  • Pablo Aurélio Lacerda de Almeida Pinto

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/2179-8087.088717
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 3

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ABSTRACT This study analyzed the regional concentration of the gross production value (GPV) of firewood in Paraíba from 1994 to 2014. It measured the concentration by means of the Concentration Ratio [CR(k)] of the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI), Theil’s Entropy (E), the Hall-Tindelman Index (HTI), and the Gini Index (G). From the analyses performed, it was concluded that there was growth in the GPV of firewood in Paraíba from R$ 2.59 million to R$ 10.39 million (in current terms). The CR(4) and CR(8) of the municipalities indicated low concentration; the CR(4) in the microregions presented a moderately low concentration, and the CR(8) had moderately high concentration. The HHI of the municipalities and microregions has a competitive market, and the HHI of the mesoregions has moderate concentration; E corroborated the evidence of HHI; HTI presented low regional concentration; G showed medium to strong inequality for mesoregions, weak to medium in microregions and zero to weak in municipalities.

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