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Effective Public Investments to Improve Food Security

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  • Livia Bizikova
  • Stefan Jungcurt
  • Kieran McDougal
  • Carin Smaller

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This paper focuses on public investments to improve food security can be placed into five broad categories.

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  • Livia Bizikova & Stefan Jungcurt & Kieran McDougal & Carin Smaller, 2017. "Effective Public Investments to Improve Food Security," Working Papers id:12324, eSocialSciences.
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    3. He, Chaofei & Ho, Chun-Yu & Yu, Leng & Zhu, Xi, 2019. "Public investment and food security: Evidence from the Hundred Billion Plan in China," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 54(C), pages 176-190.

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