Therefore, there seems to be a mismatch between technological options and users’ preferences in the Brazilian energy sector.

The results show that about two-thirds of energy production is evenly made up of fossil and renewable sources, whereas more than half of energy consumption draws on renewable ones. By singling out sets of variables that are highly interrelated, factor analysis can assist in outlining and building up an index of energy production and consumption for the Brazilian economy.

However, both energy supply and demand must come together, otherwise, on the demand side, energy-intensive activities (e.g., paper and pulp, iron and steel industries) might heavily draw on fossil-fuels sources and thus downplay any renewable-source-biased supply (Goldemberg, 2005). In Brazil, the energy policy is said to largely rely on renewable sources, thereby turning the country’s energy matrix into the world’s cleanest one (Tolmasquim, 2012). Next, despite limitation of time series data, regression functions, for both male and female within each region, were attempted which suggest that the growth of GDP has shrunk BMI countrywide.Įnergy provision is a key factor supporting an economy’s development. A preliminary correlation analysis found an inverse relationship between the GDP growth rate and the population’s BMI growth. Being consumption a large GDP component, it can be asked how GDP growth rates have impacted Brazilians’ BMI over the last 50 years. Lately, domestic income and credit policies have brought a larger contingent of people in to consumption, remarkably in poorer regions (North and Northeast). Even though a country’s economic growth is needed for its food supply, how much does it allow for its working population’s health, thus holding out nutritional damages? By measuring the effects of the growth of a standard indicator of economic wealth - GDP (Gross Domestic Product) - on that of a standard indicator of human health - BMI (Body Mass Index), it is checked how healthy food supply actually sounds across all five Brazilian regions (North, Northeast, Southeast, South and Mid-West).

Since Malthus’s dreadful predictions, in the early 19th century, about how hunger could threaten economic growth, a strong causality has been claimed between a nation’s wealth and its food provision.

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