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cord-268177-byjyqisn	Asiedu, Edward	Aid to Africa’s agriculture towards building physical capital: Empirical evidence and implications for post-COVID-19 food insecurity	2020-10-07		.txt	text/plain	10253	524	45	The formation of physical capital in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in agriculture is imperative to help the continent (1) overcome the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on food insecurity and (2) still be on track towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of "No poverty" and "Zero hunger" in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using country-level data on 40 SSA countries from 1996 to 2014 and rainfall deviations as an instrument for agricultural official development assistance (ODA) in fixed-effect estimation settings, this paper examines the 'instantaneous' impact of agricultural ODA on agricultural fixed capital formation in SSA. The paper studies the instantaneous impact of agricultural Official Development Assistance (ODA) on Agricultural Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The choice of controls to include in this model is informed by the literature on investments across developing countries (see Bleaney and 4 One-year lag of ODA on fixed capital formation is also estimated.	./cache/cord-268177-byjyqisn.txt	./txt/cord-268177-byjyqisn.txt