Economic impact of SARS-COV2 on Ecuadorian banana exports.

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17981/econcuc.44.1.2023.Econ.1

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Competitiveness, Market, Trade, Production, Banana

Abstract

The banana agro-export sector as a catalyst for the Ecuadorian economy has prevailed for decades as the main agricultural item exported to international markets. This article presents an analysis of the behavior of exports and their economic impact caused between the periods established before and during the global pandemic of the SARS-COV2 virus in the year 2020, the total GDP and the agricultural GDP of Ecuador registered a decrease impact based on the elements linked to mobility restrictions, registering a decrease in GDP of 7.8% and a different behavior in the agro-exporting sectors such as bananas, which sustained growth based on the demand for bananas from the different international markets; Likewise, the present work reveals the perspectives of sustainability and post-pandemic competitiveness of banana exports.

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Javier del Cioppo Morstadt, UNIVERSIDAD AGRARIA DEL ECUADOR

Doctor in Environmental Sciences - Master in Agrarian Economics - Agricultural Engineer, Professor at the Agrarian University of Ecuador - Faculty of Agricultural Economics. His research interests include aspects related to the soil-water-plant-climate relationship, management and control of agricultural irrigation and drainage, and the environmental economic valuation of natural resources. He has participated in more than 8 research projects, both as assistant researcher and project manager. All these projects have been developed in the field of the soil-water-plant-climate relationship and its economic-environmental feasibility analysis. He has directed 5 master's theses and more than 5 third-level final year projects. He has also published 21 papers in national and international indexed journals; of them 2 in Level 2 and 5 in Level 3. He has published 4 texts at a national level, editor in 9 scientific books. He participates as a member of the editorial committee of the magazine "El Misionero del Agro" and of the annual publication "The fifth wave of humanity's progress: The protection of the Environment". I have made specializations and academic collaboration in Israel, Spain, Cuba, Peru and Chile.

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2022-07-27 — Updated on 2022-07-27

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Morstadt, J. del C. (2022). Economic impact of SARS-COV2 on Ecuadorian banana exports. ECONÓMICAS CUC, 44(1), 31–46. https://doi.org/10.17981/econcuc.44.1.2023.Econ.1

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Vol. 44 No. 1 (2023): January - June, 2023

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Articles: Economy and Finance

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