IS THERE A LATIN AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL GROWTH PATTERN? FACTOR ENDOWMENTS and PRODUCTIVITY in the SECOND HALF of the 20THCENTURY

Martín-Retortillo M.; Pinilla V.; Velazco J.; Willebald H. · Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History (2022) · DOI: 10.1017/s0212610920000294

Resumen

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. Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Instituto Figuerola, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Instituciones: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú