The Regional (State Level) Importance of the Agribusiness GDP in the Brazilian Economy

Anais do XXXII Encontro Nacional de Economia, João Pessoa-PB (2004)

21 Pages Posted: 18 Mar 2014

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Joaquim Guilhoto

University of Sao Paulo; Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) - Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry (STI)

Date Written: 2004

Abstract

Following Furtuoso and Guilhoto (2003) the GDP of the Brazilian Agribusiness is estimated to be around 27% of the Brazilian GDP in 2000, and the latest numbers show that it could be reaching 30% of the Brazilian GDP in 2003. Despite its importance for the Brazilian economy as a whole, the size of the Brazilian territory and the regional differences draws attention for the fact that the importance of the agribusiness is not uniform over the Brazilian regions, and if the agribusiness is also divided into its four components, i.e., a) inputs to agriculture; b) agriculture; c) agriculture based industry; and d) final distribution, the differences are even bigger. In this paper it is made a study of the importance of the agribusiness for the 27 states of the Brazilian economy, taking into consideration its four components. The analysis is conduct for the year of 1999 using an interregional input-output system constructed for the Brazilian economy by Guilhoto et al. (2004).

Keywords: Brazil, Agribusiness, Regional Aspects, Input-Output.

JEL Classification: R15, Q10, O13

Suggested Citation

Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins and Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins, The Regional (State Level) Importance of the Agribusiness GDP in the Brazilian Economy (2004). Anais do XXXII Encontro Nacional de Economia, João Pessoa-PB (2004), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2410375 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2410375

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