The Contribution of Chicken Products’ Export to Economic Growth: Evidence from China, the United States, and Brazil

Xiaowei Wen, Lin Li, Sangluo Sun, Qinying He and Fu-Sheng Tsai
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Xiaowei Wen: College of Economics and Management, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Lin Li: Youth Volunteers’ Guidance Center of Guangzhou, Guangzhou 510642, China
Sangluo Sun: College of Economics and Management, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Qinying He: College of Economics and Management, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Fu-Sheng Tsai: Department of Business Administration, Cheng Shiu University, Kaohsiung 83347, Taiwan

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 19, 1-13

Abstract: As a core industry of the national economy, there is no doubt that the agricultural sector has to adapt to the new economic development. In the literature, many researchers have agreed that agricultural export is an important factor affecting economic growth. This paper explores the contribution of chicken products’ export to economic growth and the causal relationship between them. Based on the data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and World Bank between 1980 and 2016, this paper describes and compares the characteristics of chicken products’ export trade of China, the United States, and Brazil. By applying the co-integration analysis, we find that there is no significant long-term equilibrium relationship between chicken products’ export and economic growth rate in China, the United States, or Brazil. However, the growth rate of chicken products’ export significantly promotes the economic growth rate for the United States. Besides, for both China and the United States, the direct pull degree (an estimator quantifying the degree of agricultural products’ exports in stimulating economic growth) of chicken products’ export is relatively small and less volatile. Yet, the direct pull degree of China is 14 times that of the United States, and the contribution to the economic growth rate of the United States is 8 times that of China. Both the direct pull degree and economic growth contribution of chicken products’ export of Brazil fluctuates more often, and its direct pull degree is 0.25 times that of China, and the economic contributions to the growth rate is 1.65 times that of China.

Keywords: chicken products; export trade; economic growth; co-integration; ADF test (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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