On the political economy of allocation of agricultural disaster relief payments: Application to Taiwan

European Review of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 657-680

  Chang, Hung Hao ^a   Zilberman, David ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

agricultural disaster relief payment; political economy; Taiwan; typhoon

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905586370     PISSN: 01651587     EISSN: 14643618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/erae/jbt037     Document Type: Article

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