The Comparative Performance of African and Latin American Agriculture

Raul Hopkins and Bilge Nomer

Chapter 10 in Africa and Asia in Comparative Economic Perspective, 2001, pp 185-201 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The dominant perception about African agriculture is that of a declining output performance (World Bank, 1994). This is also reflected in falling growth rates of agricultural exports and declining market shares. In contrast, agricultural output and exports performed well in Latin America and the Caribbean (Twomey and Helwege, 1991), and there was a significant diversification in agricultural exports. Such a diversification did not materialise in Sub Saharan Africa (Akiyama and Larson, 1993), where the composition of agricultural exports became increasingly dependent on a few products.

Keywords: Latin American Country; Agricultural Output; Export Performance; Annual Average Rate; Agricultural Export (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1057/9781403905406_10

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