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Agricultural Aid, Agricultural Productivity and its Volatility: A Note

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  • Eskander Alvi
  • Debasri Mukherjee
  • James Squires

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We examine the effectiveness of multilateral foreign-aid that can potentially enhance agricultural production from various angles. Our analysis reveals that although such aid does not always enhance agricultural productivity, volatility of such aid seems to have strong association with the volatility of production. Also volatility adjusted agricultural aid can enhance volatility adjusted mean agricultural output.

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  • Eskander Alvi & Debasri Mukherjee & James Squires, 2018. "Agricultural Aid, Agricultural Productivity and its Volatility: A Note," Bulletin of Applied Economics, Risk Market Journals, vol. 5(2), pages 1-11.
    • Handle: RePEc:rmk:rmkbae:v:5:y:2018:i:2:p:1-11
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    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
    • F35 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Foreign Aid
    • O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
    • Q1 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture

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