CHILEAN AGRICULTURE AND MAJOR ECONOMIC REFORMS: GROWTH, TRADE, POVERTY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

William Foster and William Foster
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William Foster: Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago
William Foster: Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: William Ellis Foster

Region et Developpement, 2006, vol. 23, 187-214

Abstract: 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 institutional reforms that influenced the incentive structure in factor markets. This study presents an interpretation of the principal impacts of the reforms and how they contributed to changes in the level and composition of production, the significant reduction in rural poverty, and rural-urban migration. The greater orientation toward the production of exportables encouraged by economic reforms contributed significantly to rural employment and incomes, and was also associated with a reduction in agro-chemical use relative to production value.

Keywords: CHILE; AGRICULTURAL POLICY; REFORMS; AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS; TRADE LIBERALIZATION; RURAL POVERTY; RURAL URBAN MIGRATIONS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q12 Q13 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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