eprintid: 1474912
rev_number: 30
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datestamp: 2016-05-13 08:49:18
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type: thesis
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Petrikova, I
title: In Pursuit of Food Security: Who Should Provide Aid Where and How
ispublished: unpub
divisions: UCL
divisions: A01
divisions: B03
divisions: C03
keywords: food security, development aid, governance, aid effectiveness, heterogeneity of impact, India, Ethiopia, Vietnam, Peru
abstract: Despite persistently high levels of food insecurity in the world and large annual flows of aid from the global North to the global South in support of economic and social development, very little research to date has analysed the link between the two phenomena. This PhD thesis contributes to filling this gap in literature by examining whether development aid has any effect on food security and whether this effect varies with the type of aid provided and with the quality of governance among recipients. It set out to answer these questions using mixed methods in four different levels of analysis: a quantitative study of all low- and middle-income countries; a qualitative country case study of Peru, Ethiopia, India, and Vietnam; a quantitative analysis of household data from the same four countries; and a mixed-methods examination of data collected during field research in northern India. In all four levels of analysis, aid appeared to have a small but significant positive impact on food security, enhanced by the presence of good national as well as local governance. Moreover, some types of aid were found to be more directly supportive of food security than others – as was the case for example with aid to social sectors as opposed to aid to economic sectors or with aid implemented by non-governmental as compared to aid implemented by governmental agencies. Other types of aid, including concessional loans and budget support, seemed to have a positive effect on food security only in countries with a higher quality of governance. I conclude by formulating several relevant policy recommendations, with the most important one being that donors should take greater care in considering which types of aid are suitable to which specific countries, localities, and development goals.
date: 2016-03-28
date_type: published
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
thesis_class: doctoral_open
language: eng
thesis_view: UCL_Thesis
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primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1112418
language_elements: English
lyricists_name: Petrikova, Ivica
lyricists_id: IPETR05
actors_name: Petrikova, Ivica
actors_id: IPETR05
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
pagerange: 1-1
pages: 274
event_title: University College London
institution: UCL (University College London)
department: Political Science
thesis_type: Doctoral
editors_name: Hudson, D
editors_name: Abouharb, M
citation:        Petrikova, I;      (2016)    In Pursuit of Food Security: Who Should Provide Aid Where and How.                   Doctoral thesis , UCL (University College London).     Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1474912/1/I.%20Petrikova%20-%20PhD%20thesis.pdf