Determinants of agriculture's relative decline: Thailand

dc.creatorMartin, Will J.
dc.creatorWarr, Peter G.
dc.date2017-04-01T13:44:30Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-09T08:09:20Z
dc.descriptionDuring economic development, agriculture declines as a proportion of aggregate national output. A number of theoretical explanations for this phenomenon have been advanced in the economic literature, but their relative historical significance has not been clear. This paper develops an econometric methodology to analyze this issue and applies it to time series data for Thailand. The study investigates the importance of relative commodity prices, factor endowments and technical progress as explanations for changing sectoral GDP shares of agriculture, manufacturing and services. It is concluded that the movement in Thailand's aggregate factor endowment relative to labor was the most important determinant of agriculture's relative decline.
dc.identifierdoi:10.22004/ag.econ.173494
dc.identifierhttps://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/173494/files/agec1994v011i002-003a010.pdf
dc.identifierhttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/173494
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/596084
dc.languageeng
dc.publisher
dc.sourcehttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/173494
dc.titleDeterminants of agriculture's relative decline: Thailand
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