Nontraditional or New Traditional Exports

Ecuador's Flower Boom

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19003989
AutoresL Sawers (0000-0002-7661-3079, autor de correspondencia)
Año2005
Volumen40
Número3
Páginas40-66
Fecha de publicación2005-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLatin American Research Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0023-8791 • E-ISSN: 1542-4278
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/lar.2005.0063
OpenAlexW2078777561
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas24

This article seeks to explore the sources of the boom in flower exports from Ecuador in the last fifteen years. Rising from almost nothing in the late 1980s, fresh cut flowers now account for 8 percent of the country's nonpetroleum export earnings. The research attempts to establish whether trade liberalization and macroeconomic reforms played a decisive role in stimulating the export boom or whether changes in the global flower market created Ecuador's comparative advantage in flower exports independent of the policy regime. The article concludes that both sets of forces played an important role

Agriculture · Biology · Boom · Earnings · Economics · Floriculture · Geography · International economics · International trade · Liberalization · Market economy · Restructuring · Economic Zones and Regional Development · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Horticulture