Global Agricultural Value Chains and Structural Transformation

Sunghun Lim ()

No 29194, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Since the mid-1900s, agricultural global value chains (AGVCs) have grown rapidly and transformed the nature of agri-food production around the world. Little is known, however, about how participation in AGVCs changes the structure of participating economies. Using a constructed panel dataset from 155 countries for the period 1991-2015, I find that, in response to high AGVC participation, both GDP and employment shares in the agricultural and services sectors increase, and that both factors decrease in the manufacturing sector. Counter to conventional wisdom about structural transformation, I uncover evidence that modern agrarian economies are leapfrogging the manufacturing sector to directly develop their agriculture and services sectors through their participation in AGVCs.

JEL-codes: F14 F63 O13 Q17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-08
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Published as Global Agricultural Value Chains and Structural Transformation , Sunghun Lim. in Risks in Agricultural Supply Chains , Antràs and Zilberman. 2023

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