IS THERE A LATIN AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL GROWTH PATTERN? FACTOR ENDOWMENTS AND PRODUCTIVITY IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 20^TH CENTURY

Abstract

In this article, we discuss whether there was a single Latin American pattern of agricultural growth between 1950 and 2008. We analyse the sources of growth of agricultural production and productivity in ten Latin American countries. Our results show that the differences between these countries are too large to establish a single pattern for this region. However, certain common trends may be observed, such as the growing importance of labour productivity as a component of agricultural production growth and the increasing relevance of total factor productivity as a component of agricultural labour productivity growth.

Latin American Agri-Food Exports, 1994–2019: A Gravity Model Approach

“…Thus, the penalization of exportable agricultural products as a result of the ISI policies was drastically reduced after 1993 [14]. From 1992, agricultural production and productivity grew at the fastest rate of the entire second half of the twentieth century [15]. The percentage of agricultural production exported also increased, from just under 30% before 1992 to around 40% in the final years of the century [14].…”