Argentine trade policies in the XX century: 60 years of solitude

Autores
Brambilla, Irene; Galiani, Sebastian; Porto, Guido Gustavo
Año de publicación
2018
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inglés
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At the turn of the last century, the Argentine economy was on a path to prosperity that never fully developed. International trade and trade policies are often identified as a major culprit. In this paper, we review the history of Argentine trade policy to uncover its exceptional features and to explore its contribution to the Argentine debacle. Our analysis tells a story of bad trade policies, rooted in distributional conflict and shaped by changes in constraints, that favored industry over agriculture in a country with a fundamental comparative advantage in agriculture. While the anti-export bias impeded productivity growth in agriculture, the import substitution strategy was not successful in promoting an efficient industrialization. In the end, Argentine growth never took-off.
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Materia
Ciencias Económicas
Tariff protection
Export taxes on agriculture
Anti-export
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title Argentine trade policies in the XX century: 60 years of solitude
spellingShingle Argentine trade policies in the XX century: 60 years of solitude
Brambilla, Irene
Ciencias Económicas
Tariff protection
Export taxes on agriculture
Anti-export
title_short Argentine trade policies in the XX century: 60 years of solitude
title_full Argentine trade policies in the XX century: 60 years of solitude
title_fullStr Argentine trade policies in the XX century: 60 years of solitude
title_full_unstemmed Argentine trade policies in the XX century: 60 years of solitude
title_sort Argentine trade policies in the XX century: 60 years of solitude
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Brambilla, Irene
Galiani, Sebastian
Porto, Guido Gustavo
author Brambilla, Irene
author_facet Brambilla, Irene
Galiani, Sebastian
Porto, Guido Gustavo
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author2 Galiani, Sebastian
Porto, Guido Gustavo
author2_role author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Económicas
Tariff protection
Export taxes on agriculture
Anti-export
topic Ciencias Económicas
Tariff protection
Export taxes on agriculture
Anti-export
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv At the turn of the last century, the Argentine economy was on a path to prosperity that never fully developed. International trade and trade policies are often identified as a major culprit. In this paper, we review the history of Argentine trade policy to uncover its exceptional features and to explore its contribution to the Argentine debacle. Our analysis tells a story of bad trade policies, rooted in distributional conflict and shaped by changes in constraints, that favored industry over agriculture in a country with a fundamental comparative advantage in agriculture. While the anti-export bias impeded productivity growth in agriculture, the import substitution strategy was not successful in promoting an efficient industrialization. In the end, Argentine growth never took-off.
Facultad de Ciencias Económicas
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