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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Poverty and Agricultural Growth: Chile in the 1990s
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| Autores: |
Lopez, Ramon E.
Anriquez, Gustavo
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| Data: |
2005-03-16
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| Ano: |
2004
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| Palavras-chave: |
Agricultural growth
Chile
Poverty
Rural development
Community/Rural/Urban Development
Food Security and Poverty
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| Resumo: |
This paper analyzes the roles of agriculture in reducing poverty. Following the methodology proposed by Lopez (2002), three channels by which agricultural growth reduces poverty are tested: (i) its effects on the real wage of unskilled workers (and/or its possible effect in reducing their unemployment); (ii) the direct impact of agricultural growth on the income of poor farmers; and, (iii) the effect on real food prices. The paper concludes that the pro-poor role of agricultural expansion is dramatic. Agricultural growth tends to improve all measures of poverty significantly with head count falling around 7.3% as a consequence of a 4.5% increase in agricultural output. An important result is that while the economy-wide effects taking place via food prices and especially the labour market are quantitatively important the direct income effects on farmers are almost negligible.
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| Tipo: |
Journal Article
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
15926
http://purl.umn.edu/12013
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
eJADE: electronic Journal of Agricultural and Development Economics>Volume 1, Issue 1, 2004
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| Formato: |
19
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