Government Expenditures on Agriculture in Latin America
Title | Government Expenditures on Agriculture in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Víctor Jorge Elías |
Publisher | Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Pages | 72 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780896290242 |
Extract: The main effort of this research was directed toward assembling as long and as complete a set of data as possible for government expenditures on agriculture in nine Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela. It covers the period 1950-78 on an annual basis. An effort was made to include estimates for many kinds of expenditures, such as research and extension, irrigation, marketing, transport, health, education, administration, agrarian reform, and so forth. The purpose is to identify government expenditure policies for the agricultural sector; to measure their importance in relation to the total government budget and agricultural output; to analyze their trend and variability throughout the time period and from country to country; and to begin to study their effects on agricultural production.
Government Expenditures on Agriculture and Agricultural Growth in Latin America
Title | Government Expenditures on Agriculture and Agricultural Growth in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Víctor Jorge Elías |
Publisher | Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Pages | 72 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0896290514 |
Growth of agriculture; Government expenditures on agriculture; Determinants of government expenditures on agriculture.
Government Expenditures on Agriculture in Latin America
Title | Government Expenditures on Agriculture in Latin America PDF eBook |
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Pages | 68 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Agriculture |
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Government expenditures on agricultural growth in Latin America
Title | Government expenditures on agricultural growth in Latin America PDF eBook |
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Release | 1985 |
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Why Governments Should Stop Non-social Subsidies
Title | Why Governments Should Stop Non-social Subsidies PDF eBook |
Author | Ramón López |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 37 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Latin America |
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The provision of public goods and the amelioration of market failure are the classical justifications for government intervention in the economy. In reality, (1) governments intervene in markets that are not affected by failure, and (2) a large share of the government resources is spent in private goods, not in public goods. In contrast to issue 1, issue 2 has received little attention in the literature, in spite of the potentially large efficiency and equity losses arising from misguided allocations of public expenditures. López empirically documents the size of (2) in the rural sector and investigates its consequences for rural development for 10 Latin American countries over the 1985-2000 period. The econometric evidence suggests that the structure of public expenditures is an important factor of economic development in the rural sector, much greater than that of the level of public expenditures and of other factors on which the development literature has traditionally focused. Expanding total public expenditure in rural areas while maintaining the existing public expenditure composition prevailing in certain countries does little to promote agricultural income and reduce rural poverty. Spending a significant share of government resources in (non-social) subsidies causes less agriculture income, induces an excessive reliance of agriculture on land expansion, and reduces the income of the rural poor.
Government Spending and Income Distribution in Latin America
Title | Government Spending and Income Distribution in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Ricardo Hausmann |
Publisher | |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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Political Institutions, Inequality, and Agricultural Growth
Title | Political Institutions, Inequality, and Agricultural Growth PDF eBook |
Author | Hunt Allcott |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 43 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Crecimiento agricola |
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"This paper brings together the literatures on the political economy of public expenditures and the determinants of economic growth. Based on a new dataset of rural public expenditures in a panel of Latin American economies, the econometric evidence suggests that non-social subsidies reduce agricultural GDP. Furthermore, the evidence suggests that political and institutional factors as well as income inequality are determinants of the size and structure of rural public expenditures, through which they have large and significant effects on agricultural GDP. "--World Bank web site.