Arbeitspapier
Is EU Support to Malawi Agriculture Effective?
We measure the impact of the Farmers Income Diversification Program (FIDP), an EU funded program implemented in Malawi from late 2005 onwards, aiming at increasing agricultural productivity, diversification, value addition, commercialization and trade of subsistence farmers. The geographical spread of the implementation of FIDP is exploited to identify its impact. Computations are based on annual data by Extension Planning Area, 198 in total, fully covering Malawi, for the period 2003-04 to 2009-10. The estimations support a statistically significant impact of FIDP on agricultural productivity, with increases reaching 20% to 24% relative to base period levels, with a lag of at least one year after the start of the program and increasing over the years. Evidence on diversification of crop income is less strong but still suggests increases ranging from 5% to 10%. Results are robust for instrumental variables, synthetic controls, clustering of standard errors and inclusion of additional covariates.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 12-090/V
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Foreign Aid
Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products
Economywide Country Studies: Africa
Agriculture: Aggregate Supply and Demand Analysis; Prices
Agricultural Markets and Marketing; Cooperatives; Agribusiness
- Thema
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agricultural policy
impact evaluation
subsistence farming
Malawi
Africa
Entwicklungshilfe
EU-Staaten
Landwirtschaftliche Entwicklung
Subsistenzwirtschaft
Malawi
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Zant, Wouter
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Tinbergen Institute
- (wo)
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Amsterdam and Rotterdam
- (wann)
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2012
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Zant, Wouter
- Tinbergen Institute
Entstanden
- 2012
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