Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/195252 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Citation: 
[Journal:] Latin American Economic Review [ISSN:] 2196-436X [Volume:] 28 [Issue:] 1 [Article No.:] 4 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2018 [Pages:] 1-30
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Tariff protection
Export taxes on agriculture
Anti-export bias
JEL: 
F13
F14
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Article

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