MEASURING QUANTITATIVE FOR THE IMPACT OF AGRICULTURAL LOANS IN THE GROWTH OF AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT FOR SELECTED ARAB COUNTRIES BY USING THE METHOD OF TWO STAGE LEAST SQUARE METHOD

Daowd, Hanna; Taher, Kutaiba

doi:10.33899/magrj.2008.27611

	MEASURING QUANTITATIVE FOR THE IMPACT OF AGRICULTURAL LOANS IN THE GROWTH OF AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT FOR SELECTED ARAB COUNTRIES BY USING THE METHOD OF TWO STAGE LEAST SQUARE METHOD
Mesopotamia Journal of Agriculture
Article 1, Volume 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 4-13 PDF (0 K)
DOI: 10.33899/magrj.2008.27611
Authors
Hanna Daowd; Kutaiba Taher
College of Agri.& Forestry, Mosul University/Iraq
Abstract
This research aims studying the affecting of agricultural loans in the growth of agricultural output for the selected Arab countries: Jordan, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, and Morocco. For the purpose of measuring this impact, in order to prove the hypothesis of the research that included distinctness agricultural loans in the growth rates of agricultural output in the selected sample of Arab States has been using method two-stage least squares that required, the use of time-series data for agricultural loans during the period 1980-2003 as dependent variable and interest rate on the total agricultural loans and capital accumulation s independent variable in the first phase and the second phase included the annual growth rate of agricultural output for the same period as dependent variable that estimated total agricultural loans in the first phase. One of the most important conclusions, it was found that the increase in aggregate impact on agricultural loans to increase the annual growth rate of agricultural output in the Arab countries selected but this increase varied between these countries.

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