Foreign aid and consumption smoothing: Evidence from global food aid

Review of Development Economics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 379-390

  Gupta, Sanjeev ^a   Clements, Benedict ^a   Tiongson, Erwin R ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; FOOD AID; FOOD SUPPLY; INTERNATIONAL AID;

EID: 4143121220     PISSN: 13636669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9361.2004.00239.x     Document Type: Article

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