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Agriculture, Aid, and Economic Growth in Africa

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dc.contributor.authorMcArthur, John W.
dc.contributor.authorSachs, Jeffrey D.
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-06T16:20:48Z
dc.date.available2020-08-06T16:20:48Z
dc.date.issued2019-02
dc.description.abstractHow can foreign aid to agriculture support economic growth in Africa? This paper constructs a geographically indexed applied general equilibrium model that considers pathways through which aid might affect growth and structural transformation of labor markets in the context of soil nutrient variation, minimum subsistence consumption requirements, domestic transport costs, labor mobility, and constraints to self-financing of agricultural inputs. Using plausible parameters, the model is presented for Uganda as an illustrative case. We present three stylized scenarios to demonstrate the potential economy-wide impacts of both soil nutrient loss and replenishment, and how foreign aid can be targeted to support agricultural inputs that boost rural productivity and shift labor to boost real wages. One simulation shows how a temporary program of targeted official development assistance (ODA) for agriculture could generate, contrary to traditional Dutch disease concerns, an expansion in the primary tradable sector and positive permanent productivity and welfare effects, leading to a steady decline in the need for complementary ODA for budget support.en
dc.identifier.citationWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/34286
dc.identifier.issn1564-698X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/34286
dc.publisherPublished by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subjectFOREIGN AID
dc.subjectOFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE
dc.subjectECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subjectRURAL PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subjectFARM PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subjectAGRICULTURE
dc.titleAgriculture, Aid, and Economic Growth in Africaen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.typeArticle de journalfr
dc.typeArtículo de revistaes
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okr.crossref.titleAgriculture, Aid, and Economic Growth in Africa
okr.date.disclosure2020-08-06
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Journal Article
okr.identifier.doi10.1093/wber/lhx029
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/34286
okr.journal.nbpages1-20
okr.language.supporteden
okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.region.administrativeAfrica
okr.region.countryUganda
okr.region.geographicalSub-Saharan Africa
okr.topicAgriculture::Agricultural Sector Economics
okr.topicMacroeconomics and Economic Growth::Development Economics & Aid Effectiveness
okr.topicMacroeconomics and Economic Growth::Economic Growth
okr.topicRural Development::Agricultural Growth and Rural Development
okr.topicRural Development::Rural Labor Markets
okr.volume33(1)
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