The goal of this paper is to analyze the productive structure of the Parana economy emphasizing the role of the agricultural cooperatives in the state development for the years 1980, 1985, 1990 and 1995. Using input-output tables estimated for those years it was possible to detect that: i) for the years 1980 and 1985 the Cooperative sector was a key sector for the Parana economy; ii) in all years analyzed, the agricultural cooperatives presented technical coefficients of production very similar to those of the non-cooperative sector, showing that the cooperatives are incorporating in their productive process the technological progress that have been consolidated by the non-cooperative sector; iii) some sectors of the transformation industry, like Machinery and Equipment, Transport Equipment and, in a lesser scale, Metal Products and Electrical/Electronic Equipment seem to be increasing their participation in the state economy; iv) the Parana economy showed more diversification in the productive structure, more openness to external relations and, consequently, more economic complexity.
input-output; sectoral analysis; productive structure; agricultural cooperatives
