• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Almería's fruit and vegetable competitive advantage and the growth of GDP per capita ; La ventaja competitiva de la horticultura almeriense y el crecimiento del PIB per cápita
  • Contributor: Gil Salmerón, Antonio Miguel [Author]
  • imprint: Madrid and Cartagena: Spanish Accounting and Business Administration Association (AECA) and Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT), 2020
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.26784/sbir.v4i2.265
  • ISSN: 2531-0046
  • Keywords: innovation ; horticulture ; competitive advantage ; O47 ; greenhouse ; I31 ; bienestar social ; Q17 ; invernadero ; social welfare ; innovación ; Q16 ; ventaja competitiva ; horticultura
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  • Description: Almeria's horticulture has experienced extensive growth that is sustained by the main macroeconomic variables: an acceleration of the agricultural income, broadly-speaking, a positive commercial balance throughout the first quindenium of the century and a GDP that on the whole represents the 16.69% of that accounted by all the province, without taking the agricultural auxiliary industry into account. This trend leads to an asymmetric process of deagrarianization which registers the whole of the Spanish economy and acts as a source of competitive plus point in comparative terms with the development of the social welfare of its territory. A linear regression analysis crosses two variables to assess the degree of coincidence that exists between the growth registered by Almeria's horticulture industry and the quality of life of its citizens. On the one hand, the productivity of the sector is used (average in tonnes of production per hectare) whilst, on the other hand, per capita GDP -because economic growth theories go against GDP as an indicator of social welfare. There is evidence that GDP per capita follows a parallel or symmetrical pattern to the citizens' perception of happiness. It has been categorically confirmed that the horticulture industry of Almería intervenes as a competitive advantage through its productivity, as it stands above all as a long-term determinant of the standard of living of any territory. ; La horticultura almeriense ha experimentado un importante crecimiento que viene sustentado por las principales variables macroeconómicas: una aceleración de la renta agraria, un saldo comercial positivo durante todo el primer quindenio del siglo y un PIB que llega a representar el 16,69% del contabilizado por toda la provincia, excluida la industria auxiliar agraria. Este comportamiento sigue un proceso asimétrico a la desagrarización que registra el conjunto de la economía española y actúa como fuente de ventaja competitiva en términos comparativos con el desarrollo del bienestar social de su ...
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