Is there a Latin American agricultural growth pattern?factor endowments and productivity in the second half of the 20th century

  1. Miguel Martín-Retortillo 1
  2. Vicente Pinilla 2
  3. Jackeline Velazco 3
  4. Henry Willebald 4
  1. 1 Universidad de Alcalá
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    Universidad de Alcalá

    Alcalá de Henares, España

    ROR https://ror.org/04pmn0e78

  2. 2 Universidad de Zaragoza
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    Universidad de Zaragoza

    Zaragoza, España

    ROR https://ror.org/012a91z28

  3. 3 Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
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    Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

    Lima, Perú

    ROR https://ror.org/00013q465

  4. 4 Universidad de la República, Uruguay
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Revista:
Revista de Historia Económica = Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History

ISSN: 0212-6109

Any de publicació: 2022

Any: 40

Número: 1

Pàgines: 99-134

Tipus: Article

DOI: 10.1017/S0212610920000294 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Altres publicacions en: Revista de Historia Económica = Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History

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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.

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