Food insecurity, the lack of access at all times to the food needed for an active and healthy life, continues to be a growing problem as populations increase while the world economy struggles. Formulating effective policies for addressing these issues requires thorough understanding of the empirical data and application of appropriate measurement and analysis of that information.

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This study considers capacity as a resource that is used to produce goods and services as well as in the generation of new technologies. We model capacity as an endogenous process that is not only generated by the country governments, but is also related to learning, and how capacity resources are utilized with the help of donor funds. Undertaking some of the policy exercises, we demonstrate that increasing learning capabilities in an economy raises the human capital stock, and unambiguously increases the rate of growth of output, technology, capital stock and capacity. We demonstrate that donor's intervention is most desirable when the economy's capacity is extremely low. Under such a situation, an increase in resources that are utilized efficiently by the recipient country has the most significant impact on the rate of growth of output, rate of growth of technology, and capacity. In contrast, excessive donor intervention can actually lead to "crowding out effects," in which the economy never reaches a new steady state, with the consequence that the rate of growth of technology, output, and capacity declines continually.

The goal of this dissertation is to enhance the understanding of forces that govern technology transfer to a host country. The role of R&D intensity of the host country, spillovers from affiliates to the host country and to the multinational enterprise (MNE), and the role of intellectual property rights (IPR) on technology transfer are examined. Chapter 2 sheds light showing how the interplay of factors such as MNE allocating resources devoted to R&D activities, the level of IPR, and the spillovers that MNE obtains from subsidiaries and local competitors are crucial for MNEs choice of FDI over exports. Chapter 3 empirically examines the theoretical predictions of chapter 2 for US outward FDI for a sample of developed economies using panel data estimation. The results demonstrate that foreign markets are initially served through exports, and later through direct investment. There is a non-linear relationship between spillovers and FDI. Chapter 4 examines the role of the same determinants for FDI and licensing. The main result is that IPR in the host country has a positive impact on FDI and all forms of licensing.