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ARGENTINA Y AUSTRALIA: ALGUNOS ASPECTOS DE SU
DESARROLLO ECONOMICO COMPARADO *
HtCTOR L. DI]GUEZ
I. EXPLICACI6N PRELIMINAR
2 N. C. BUTLRN,
Australian Domestic Product Investment and Foreign Borrowing
1861 -1938/39, Cambridge, Inglaterra, 1962.
3 COMMONWEALTH BUREAUOF CENSUS AND STATISTICS, Australian National Accounts,
Canberra, 1955.
4 Los ntmeros indices del PBI por babitante calculados por Smithies para Ar-
gentina son para 1950-54, 156; para 1955-59, 170; y para 1960-63, 174. De ese modo,
su tabla estadistica sustenta bastante bien su explicaci6n del peronismo como res-
ponsable del atraso comparativo de la Argentina.
ARGENTINA Y AUSTRALIA: DESARROLLO COMPARADO 545
CUADRO 1
Producto bruto interno
(a valores de mercado en precios constantes)
(numeros indices, 1900-04 = 100,0)
PBI Poblci6n PIBI por habitante
Argen- Austra- Argen- Austra- Argenr Austra-
tina ia tina Ha tina Ua
CUADRO 2
Tasas anuales de crecimiento
Australia Argentina
Periodos PBI Poblaci6n PBI/h PBI Poblaci6n PBI/h
CUADRO 3
Exportaciones
(millones de dolares)
AlstraliJr Argentina
CUADRO 4
Exportaciones
(% del PBI)
Promedios de quin-
quenios seleccionados Australia Argentina
CUADRO 5
Contenido de importaciones en
la oferta de bienes mianufacturados
(exluyendo alimentos)
Afios Australia Argentina
seleccionados % %
1929 37 51
1937 25 32
1950 25 16
1955 21 14
1957 15 15
1959 15 17
V. SUMARIO Y CONCLUSIONES
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