Research Article

Impacts of the Recent Expansion of the Sugarcane Sector on Municipal per Capita Income in São Paulo State

Table 5

Impact on real per capita GDP (in $ of 2008) of a 10 p.p. permanent increase in the share of farmland relative to the entire municipal area.

Average municipal effect Accumulated average municipal effect
DirectIndirectDirectIndirect

Contemporaneous75.542.1775.542.17
Years forward
 143.553.00119.085.17
 225.373.14144.458.31
 314.962.96159.4111.27
 48.962.64168.3613.91
 55.452.28173.8116.20
 63.391.95177.2118.14
 72.151.63179.3619.77
 81.401.36180.7621.13
 90.931.13181.6922.26
 100.640.93182.3323.19

Source: research results.
Indirect effects were divided by 15 in order to turn the results comparable at the municipal level.