ABSTRACT
This chapter compares sectoral growth and structure within and between the main part of the import-substitution industrialization period and the following austerity period. When imports of raw materials of agricultural origin for industrial processing are counted as part of industrial imports, industry's share of total imports increases from 50.5 to 62.4 percent for 1984-1987 and agriculture's share falls from 18.4 to only 6.6 percent. Data for measuring the nutritional status of the Ecuadorian population are limited and confined almost exclusively to small case studies or to estimates of apparent consumption from secondary data. The agricultural sector responded to improved macroeconomic policies during the austerity period of 1982-1988 and grew at an annual average rate of over six percent in contrast to its relatively poor performance during 1965-1981 as production for export and domestic consumption burgeoned.
