TY  - CPAPER 
AB  - 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.
AU  - Chebbi, Houssem Eddine
AU  - Lachaal, Lassaad
DA  - 2007
DA  - 2007
DO  - 10.22004/ag.econ.9416
DO  - doi
ID  - 9416
KW  - International Development
KW  - co-integration
KW  - economic growth
KW  - agricultural sector
KW  - Tunisia
L1  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/9416/files/sp07ch03.pdf
L2  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/9416/files/sp07ch03.pdf
L4  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/9416/files/sp07ch03.pdf
LA  - eng
LA  - English
LK  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/9416/files/sp07ch03.pdf
N2  - 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.
PY  - 2007
PY  - 2007
T1  - Agricultural Sector and Economic Growth in Tunisia: Evidence from Co-integration and Error Correction Mechanism
TI  - Agricultural Sector and Economic Growth in Tunisia: Evidence from Co-integration and Error Correction Mechanism
UR  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/9416/files/sp07ch03.pdf
Y1  - 2007
T2  - 103rd EAAE Seminar 'Adding Value to the Agro-Food Supply Chain in the Future Euromediterranean Space'
ER  -