The Discrete Charm of Chilean Agriculture

Renato Aguilar and Jorge Dresdner

Chapter 7 in Structure and Structural Change in the Chilean Economy, 2006, pp 143-168 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Agriculture has played a central role in Chile’s economic development during most of its history. After a relatively short period during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when Chile was essentially a military outpost covering Peru’s frontier, the country become a basically agricultural economy. The economic outcome depended heavily of a series of agricultural exporting cycles; first hides and fat, and then grains. It is not until the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that mining became a significant economic and exporting activity. After the Second World War, together with general awareness about the problems of economic development, an attitude against agriculture became apparent. The sector was considered a major hindrance for development and its performance the main explanation for inflation, an endemic problem during the period.

Keywords: Agricultural Sector; Real Exchange Rate; Land Tenure; Agricultural Output; Land Reform (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230239654_7

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