Uruguay: Selected Issues

Uruguay: Selected Issues
ISBN-10
1475546793
ISBN-13
9781475546798
Series
Uruguay
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
55
Language
English
Published
2014-01-10
Publisher
International Monetary Fund
Author
International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Dept.

Description

This Selected Issues paper examines the drivers and implications of the agricultural land price boom in Uruguay. It finds that almost half of the increase in agricultural land prices between 2000 and 2010 can be explained by commodity price dynamics. At the same time, farmland prices are estimated to have played an important role in the transmission of commodity price shocks to economic activity, accounting for about 30 percent of the effect of commodity price shocks on GDP growth in the region. The paper also examines the performance of Uruguay’s exports and external balances over the past decade.

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