ECONOMIC REFORM POLICIES AND THEIR IMPACT ON CREDIT AND AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT IN SELECTED ARAB STATES

Dawood, Hanaa

doi:10.33899/magrj.2012.32646

	ECONOMIC REFORM POLICIES AND THEIR IMPACT ON CREDIT AND AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT IN SELECTED ARAB STATES
Mesopotamia Journal of Agriculture
Article 5, Volume 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 9-26 PDF (0 K)
DOI: 10.33899/magrj.2012.32646
Author
Hanaa Dawood
College of Agriculture and Forestry- Mosul University
Abstract
This research aims studying and measuring the impact of economic reform policies on credit and agricultural output in selected Arab states, adopted these policies (Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Sudan), in order to prove the hypothesis of the research that included distinctness that economic reform policies have economic impacts on agricultural credit size and agricultural output of the sample states. The research depends upon the descriptive approach and quantitative analysis using multi-Regression Analysis, and research contains a time series for ( 33 ) years (1975-2007) using an approach ( Before – After ) to comparing tow periods to evaluate these policies by using least squares method, to know the impact of independent economic changes for the policies of economic reform programs upon the dependent change ( the size of agricultural credit ). Then to measure the estimated agricultural credit size of the first example in agricultural output value by using two stage least squares method in order to get the most accurate consequences. One of the most important conclusions is that the economic reform policy has negative effects on farmers and agricultural financial establishments in short term. The positive results do not appear except on long term through improvement performance agricultural banks and the rise of agricultural produce value.

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