Poverty and Agricultural Growth: Chile in the 1990s
| dc.creator | Lopez, Ramon E. | |
| dc.creator | Anriquez, Gustavo | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T20:20:21Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T03:03:10Z | |
| dc.description | 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. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.12013 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/12013/files/01010006.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/12013 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/525570 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
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| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/12013 | |
| dc.title | Poverty and Agricultural Growth: Chile in the 1990s | |
| dc.type | Text |