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Agricultural Economics in the Context of Portuguese Rural Development

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Rural areas have frequent problems related with economic dynamics, namely because they are areas with a low population density, with little economic activity and heavily dependent on the agricultural sector. In this context any strategy for rural development cannot ignore agriculture and its interrelationships. Taking this context into account, it seems important for the Portuguese rural situation to analyze the externalities that come from outside and inside farms. So, the main objective of this research is to study the influence of other sectors related to the farming sector (some industries and some services), through the output, and the weight of some structural characteristics of farms, measured by the employment and the number of agricultural units with multifunctional activities, in the performance of some indicators of agriculture, namely the output. For this a descriptive analysis was made of the statistical information available in the INE (Several statistics; 2014) and cross-sectional estimations through several tests and techniques, including those related to spatial econometrics, for Portuguese municipalities over the year 2009.

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Martinho, V.J.P.D. (2015). Agricultural Economics in the Context of Portuguese Rural Development. In: Martinho, V. (eds) The Agricultural Economics of the 21st Century. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09471-7_9

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