Almería’s fruit and vegetable competitive advantage and the growth of GDP per capita

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...

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Main Author: Antonio Miguel Gil Salmerón
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Language:English
Published: Asociación Española de Contabilidad y Administración de Empresas (AECA), Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT) 2020-07-01
Series:Small Business International Review
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Online Access:https://sbir.upct.es/index.php/sbir/article/view/265
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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
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spelling doaj-art-b5f021df46d44f248503da18bdbd45af2025-08-20T02:00:17ZengAsociación Española de Contabilidad y Administración de Empresas (AECA), Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT)Small Business International Review2531-00462020-07-0142182910.26784/sbir.v4i2.265265Almería’s fruit and vegetable competitive advantage and the growth of GDP per capitaAntonio Miguel Gil Salmerón0Universitat Oberta de Catalunya: Barcelona, CatalunyaAlmeria'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 territoryhttps://sbir.upct.es/index.php/sbir/article/view/265innovationhorticulturecompetitive advantagesocial welfaregreenhouse
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Almería’s fruit and vegetable competitive advantage and the growth of GDP per capita
Small Business International Review
innovation
horticulture
competitive advantage
social welfare
greenhouse
title Almería’s fruit and vegetable competitive advantage and the growth of GDP per capita
title_full Almería’s fruit and vegetable competitive advantage and the growth of GDP per capita
title_fullStr Almería’s fruit and vegetable competitive advantage and the growth of GDP per capita
title_full_unstemmed Almería’s fruit and vegetable competitive advantage and the growth of GDP per capita
title_short Almería’s fruit and vegetable competitive advantage and the growth of GDP per capita
title_sort almeria s fruit and vegetable competitive advantage and the growth of gdp per capita
topic innovation
horticulture
competitive advantage
social welfare
greenhouse
url https://sbir.upct.es/index.php/sbir/article/view/265
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