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Agricultural Knowledge and Technology in Latin America and the Caribbean: Plausible Scenarios for Sustainable Development | 129
Table 3-3. continued.
Variable |
Current situation |
Source |
Performance of |
Agricultural GDP (USD million in 1995) for 2002. (a) Greater than 60,000: Brazil; (b) |
RLC-FAO, 2004 |
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Share of agricultural GDP of total GDP (%) in 2002. (a) Greater than 40%: |
RLC-FAO, 2004 |
Interactions between the agricultural production and the AKST systems |
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Rent |
Rent per capita. More than US$9,655: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama and Trinidad and Tobago; US$875-3,125: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Dominican Republic, and Jamaica; Less than US$875: Haiti. |
World Bank 2003 |
Rent inequality |
Between 1998 and 2005 the difference between the most rich and the most poor—an indicator of social inequality—in some LAC countries shrank between 8% and 23%; those countries were Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The relatively large difference in percent values was due to an increased participation of the lowest four population deciles as well as a decrease in the participation of the richest population decile. Chile and Costa Rica did not show any change in that indicator. Colombia, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, and Uruguay instead showed increases not greater than 13%. The value of the Gini Index confirms the emerging trend to an improvement in wealth distribution. Brazil, El Salvador, Paraguay and Peru showed a substantial decrease (4% to 7%) in the value of that index: however, Honduras showed a marked increase in the value of the Gini Index. |
CEPAL, 2006 |
| During the longer period 1990-2005, in Uruguay and Panama urban wealth distributivity markedly increase, as attested by a decrease of about 8% in the Gini Index. Honduras followed the same path, with a decrease of 4% in the value of that index. On the other hand, urban areas in Ecuador and metropolitan Asunción in Paraguay yielded a 10% increase in the value of the Gini Index, which amounts to a sizeable increase in the concentration of wealth. The index also decreased from 4% to 7% for Argentina (Great Buenos Aires area), Costa Rica and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. |
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| In 2005 Bolivia, Brazil, Honduras and Colombia showed relatively large values (ranging from 0.584 to 0.614) of the Gini Index. The lowest value of that range (0.584) was greater than the upper value of the range 0.526-0.579 obtained for Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Chile, Guatemala, Paraguay, México and Argentina. Inequality (as measured by the Gini Index) was still less (0,470-0,513) for Ecuador, Peru, Panama, El Salvador, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and Costa Rica. Uruguay was the only country with a low inequality level: Gini Index of 0,451. |
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Social development |
Concern with meeting people’s basic needs (e.g., assistance to education premises, sanitation, electricity, drinking water, five or more years of schooling, dwelling, avoidance of overcrowding, etc.) as measured by an index running from 0% to 100%. High (equal to or greater than 70%): Panama, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Uruguay and Brazil; medium (50%-69%): Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and Guatemala; below average (25%-49%): El Salvador, Paraguay, Peru, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Honduras. |
CEPAL, 2005a |
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