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Technological Change and Productivity Growth in the Agrarian Systems of New Zealand and Uruguay (1870–2010)

In: Agricultural Development in the World Periphery

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  • Jorge Álvarez Scanniello

    (University of the Republic)

Abstract

New Zealand and Uruguay were typical settler economies and were similar in many ways, but there were also major differences in how they developed. Chapter 18 aims to describe the New Zealand and Uruguayan livestock systems by analysing their technological trajectories as they sought to raise land productivity. We use a systematic case-oriented comparison and an evolutionary theoretical approach to technological change to understand the process in both pastoral systems in the long term (1870–2010). In the nineteenth century Uruguay had more favourable conditions for pastoral production and, until the 1930s, higher production volumes per hectare. New Zealand had higher growth rates in all livestock physical productivity indicators from 1870 to 1970, and overtook Uruguay’s levels by the mid-twentieth century.

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  • Jorge Álvarez Scanniello, 2018. "Technological Change and Productivity Growth in the Agrarian Systems of New Zealand and Uruguay (1870–2010)," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Vicente Pinilla & Henry Willebald (ed.), Agricultural Development in the World Periphery, chapter 18, pages 467-492, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-319-66020-2_18
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-66020-2_18
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