Impacts of Salazar´s economic policy on the agricultural sector in Portugal in the 1930´s

The main thesys of the work is to evaluate the impact of the economic policy applied by the authoritarian regime of António de Oliveiri Salazar on the agricultural sector in Portugal during the 1930´s. The theoretical part of the work is focused on the theory of authoritarian regimes and on the subsequent connection with the Salazar regime in Portugal, the institutional anchnoring of the regime (Estado Novo) and the economic theory relating to the economic policy applied by the regime is clarifieed here. Praktická část je zaměřena na analýzu vývoje zemědělského sektoru v Portugalsku ve 30. letech 20. století, na analýzu dopadů Salazarovy hospodářské politiky na toto odvětví a na význam odvětví pro portugalskou ekonomiku ve sledovaném období. The contribution of the work lies in the analysis of the agricultural sector with applied measures of economic policy of the sector and the resulting impacts in this area of the economy. The work analyzes the measures used by the regime and their results on the agricultural sector, which at the end of the 1930´s, despite the impact of agricultural policy, still did not reach values indicating convergence with modern economies. Agricultural exports gradually grew and the most exported component was raw materials of vegetable origin. The impacts on the overall economy of Portugal are limited only to the development of the Portuguese GDP, which increased towards the end of the 1930´s and the agricultural sector made up 33 % of the total GDP during this period.