Agricultura y empleo rural agropecuario en Bolivia: Consecuencias del control de precios en el sector agropecuario

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Price controls are measures that can significantly affect the sectors subject to such policies. Using a dynamic general stochastic equilibrium model with two types of agents: farmers and city dwellers, calibrated to Bolivia, it is shown that with falling productivity in the agricultural sector, agricultural rural employment and agricultural production were impaired when there are price controls. Likewise, productivity improvements in the rural non-farm sector, represents lower incomes with fixed prices in relation to a mechanism that allows prices to adjust. In a simulation of the policies carried out in 2009 in Bolivia, we can see that they create imbalances in the markets causing shortages of agricultural products in substantial quantities.

Object Details

• Language: Spanisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Development Research Working Paper Series ; No. 10/2011

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products ; Agriculture: Aggregate Supply and Demand Analysis; Prices ; General Equilibrium and Welfare Economic Analysis of Regional Economies
• Subject: Price Control ; Rural Employment ; Agriculture ; Beschäftigung ; Ländlicher Raum ; Agrarpreispolitik ; Bolivien

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Cossío, Diego Alejandro Vera
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for Advanced Development Studies (INESAD)
• (where): La Paz
• (when): 2011

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/87828
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