This study examines the Chilean experience of economic and trade reforms, deregulation and privatization beginning in the 1970s, and their effect on the agricultural sector from the 1980s to the present. Especially interesting is the interaction between the sectoral, macroeconomic and...

Economic theory and econometric evidence support the thesis that the displacement of government expenditures on public goods by subsidies to private goods inhibits the performance of the farm sector. This paper presents an analysis of the influence of the mix of expenditures related to...

La teoría económica y la evidencia empírica disponible apoyan la tesis de que el direccionamiento del gasto público hacia bienes de naturaleza privada, en detrimento del gasto en bienes públicos, inhibe el desempeño del sector agrícola. Este trabajo presenta un análisis de la influencia...

Empirical studies of farm family labor supply typically assume without testing that decisions regarding labor use in farm production are separable from decisions regarding consumption and the allocation of time to leisure and to on- and off-farm labor. Un

This study analyzes the relationships between farmland values and factors associated with the growth in Chilean agriculture, and identifies agricultural land value's determinants by estimating a log-linear hedonic price function. The results indicate that a parcel's market value varies according...

El estudio analiza la evolucion del ingreso real de los ocupados en la agricultura entre los anos 1990 y 2005 para los casos de Brasilm Chile, Columbia y Mexico. Con informacion del PIB Agricola y de ingresos autonomos provenientes de las encuestas de hogares, se analiza si el alto cremiento del...

"The Guatemalan raspberry industry began exporting to the United States in the late 1980s, filling a market niche in the spring and fall when supplies were low. By 1996, Guatemalan raspberry exports were increasing rapidly, up 113 percent from the previous season. That spring and early summer,...

This study examines recent effective rates of protection across the Egyptian economy, using an ad valorem price wedge introduced by nontariff barriers and energy subsidies, and compares today's effective rates of protection with those of a decade ago. The study uses 23 aggregated sectors from...