@article{Chebbi:9416,
      recid = {9416},
      author = {Chebbi, Houssem Eddine and Lachaal, Lassaad},
      title = {Agricultural Sector and Economic Growth in Tunisia:  Evidence from Co-integration and Error Correction  Mechanism},
      address = {2007},
      number = {688-2016-47181},
      series = {103rd EAAE Seminar 'Adding Value to the Agro-Food Supply  Chain in the Future Euromediterranean Space'},
      pages = {17},
      year = {2007},
      abstract = {For the past two decades, Tunisia has been undertaken  important structural reforms,
which call in most cases for  market and trade liberalization (agricultural structural  adjustment
program, GATT reforms, free trade area with the  European Union). The private-led type of
growth strategy  with less government intervention has culminated these last  years into a
more rapid economic growth and  openness.
Within this context, this paper examines the  agricultural sector role into the economic
growth and its  interactions with the other sectors using time-series  co-integration techniques.
We use annual data from 1961 to  2005 to estimate a VAR model that includes GDP indices
of  five sectors in Tunisian economy.
Empirical results from  this study indicate that in the long-run all economic  sectors
tend to move together (co-integrate). But, in the  short-run, the agricultural sector seems to
have a limited  role as a driving force for the growth of the other sectors  of the economy. In
addition, growth of the agricultural  output may not be conducive directly to  non-agricultural
economic sector in the short-run.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/9416},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.9416},
}