Food aid disincentives: The Tunisian experience

Review of Development Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 609-621

  Bezuneh, Mesfin ^a   Deaton, Brady ^b   Zuhair, Segu ^c  

^a CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC IMPACT; FOOD AID; FOOD PRODUCTION; PRICE DETERMINATION;

TUNISIA;

EID: 0142104226     PISSN: 13636669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9361.00212     Document Type: Article

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