Análisis de las fallas de mercado en la explotación de cacao en los cantones de pasaje y santa rosa.

Abstract

As established by the First Fundamental Theorem of Welfare Economics, under certain conditions, the market is capable of efficiently providing goods and services, however, in practice these conditions are not fulfilled, as a consequence of this, the market failures, considering this context, the objective of the research is to analyze the market failures in the exploitation of cocoa in the cantons of Pasaje and Santa Rosa in order to establish the level of affectation to the producers; In order to solve the objective, bibliographic information was used, in addition to a survey of ten cocoa producers in the cantons of Santa Rosa and Pasaje, after which it was possible to conclude that there are different types of market failures, among these: imperfect markets, incomplete markets, externalities and information asymmetries; Regarding the survey of producers, the greatest impact is reflected by the lack of access to information and credit options, the latter, particularly there is a lack of follow-up by financial institutions, as a consequence, in many cases the money is ends up redirecting to other activities that have nothing to do with production, so some strategies should be implemented, for example, greater sources of direct information for producers, better road access, sources of adequate and quality education near the areas rural, among others.