Improving Food Aid: What Reforms Would Yield the Highest Payoff?

World Development

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1152-1172

  Lentz, Erin C ^a   Barrett, Christopher B ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

cargo preference; local and regional purchases; monetization; targeting; tying

Indexed keywords

AID FLOW; AID POLICY; FOOD AID; FOOD SECURITY; MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; POLICY REFORM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44549086890     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2007.06.018     Document Type: Article

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