Agricultural Growth Linkages in Guatemala: New Insights from a Value Chain Approach
结合价值链与投入产出分析，发现危地马拉农业关联部门以非正规部门为主，创造较少增加值但更多就业，且前向关联比后向关联更重要，对发展政策有参考价值。
The agricultural growth linkage debate substantiates that agriculture contributes to economic growth through its linkages to other sectors. This paper contributes to the debate by combining a value chain approach with input-output-analysis. Results for Guatemala show that the sectors linked to agriculture are predominantly informal sectors and that these sectors create less value added, but more employment than formal sectors. It is also demonstrated that forward linkages are more important than backward linkages. In conclusion, agricultural linkages to forward sectors have a high potential to generate employment and value added and therefore should be supported by development policies.