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The aid-nutrition link - Can targeted development assistance to the agricultural sector reduce hunger?

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  • Kornher, Lukas
  • Kubik, Zaneta
  • Chichaibelu, Bezawit Beyene

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In this study, we discuss and examine empirically the relevance of targeted ODA to the agricultural sector to improve food and nutrition security. Given the relationship between agricultural growth and poverty reduction as well as food and nutrition security, aid attributed specifically to the agricultural sector could have a stronger and more immediate impact than overall aid. We find a statistically significant and economically meaningful contribution of agricultural ODA to hunger and malnutrition reduction since 2000. This has important implications for donor countries that focus on the fight against hunger in their development cooperation strategies, such as Germany and its “One World without Hunger” initiative. To account for the potential reverse causality of aid and development outcomes, we follow the instrumentation approach of RAJAN AND SUBRAMANIAN (2008) and ARNDT ET AL. (2010) and apply it to sectoral aid using two novel zero-stage instruments.

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  • Kornher, Lukas & Kubik, Zaneta & Chichaibelu, Bezawit Beyene, 2021. "The aid-nutrition link - Can targeted development assistance to the agricultural sector reduce hunger?," 61st Annual Conference, Berlin, Germany, September 22-24, 2021 317077, German Association of Agricultural Economists (GEWISOLA).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:gewi21:317077
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.317077
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