Macro Performance, Fiscal Behavior, and Water Investments: Three Essays on the Effects of Foreign Aid in Bangladesh

The third essay illustrates the deficiencies of traditional planning approaches to aid financed water investments and demonstrates the importance of embedding the macroeconomic linkages of agricultural into planning framework. First, a dynamic cost minimization model is utilized to compute the minimum amount of investments needed in various water projects such that an exogenously set agricultural growth target can be met. Next, the minimum cost solution is again derived accounting for the macroeconomic linkages of agriculture in a joint agro-macro model. The differences in the optimal solutions obtained from the two models suggest that foreign aid is commonly allocated into financing water investments that are non-optimally planned.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Economics

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Quazi, Rahim Masudur

Contributors dc:contributor

• Rashid, Salim

• Economics, Agricultural

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9953116

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/85661