Economy & Energy
Year III - No 13 March/April 1999
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The Structure of the Crisis
Privatization in the Energy
Area
Energy Equivalence Coefficients
Glossary of
Energy
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Brazilian Public Debt
Internationl Reserves
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Thursday, 24 July 2003.
The
Structure of the Crisis
Omar Campos Ferreira
The economical crisis of this end of century has been diagnosed and treated as a financial
one, which can be solved by monetarist measures, but in reality it seems to have deeper
roots. In order to analyze the crisis it is safer to start with elements of the
"physical economy" , using the currency only when there are difficulties to
evaluate short term variations of some production factor.
The Ministry of Mines and Energy is editing a Glossary where terms currently used in the area are defined for each specific area. In the present issue e&e puts at your disposal the following items: units, hydraulic energy, electric energy.
The energy sector is presently the most important program in the privatization program under progress by the Brazilian Government.
It is presented:
- Table of the privatization already made with the values obtained and the premium relative to the minimum price;
- Relative participation of the several sectors in the Brazilian privatization;
- Table with the agenda of the programmed privatization
Some of these are part of the commitments of the Brazil-IMF agreement.
Energy Equivalence Coefficients
Between natural gas and electric energy (dry natural gas consumption in a thermoelectric power plant and the power necessary to supply residential demand)
Among fuels (physical units, solid, liquid, gaseous)