Policies and Performance of the Argentine Dairy Sector between 2003 and 2011
Abstract
Adjustments and state interventions in the Argentine dairy sector have had in recent years different signs, sometimes contradictory meanings and directions as well. In the eighties there was an appeal to both the Consultation Commission on Dairy Policy and the Fund for the Promotion of the Dairy Sector. Deregulation in the nineties dismantled both mechanisms: yet afterwards a sectorial policy was again implemented which involved greater state intervention. The present work focuses on this latter period, first describing the policy measures aimed to disconnect domestic prices from international prices and those that try to fix the new problems that appear. The results obtained in terms of prices, production, consumption and exports are evaluated. A final section summarizes the main conclusions.
