Food aid allocation policies: Coordination and responsiveness to recipient country needs

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 319-327

  Kuhlgatz, Christian ^a   Abdulai, Awudu ^a   Barrett, Christopher B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Censored LAD regression; Developing countries; Donor cooperation; Food aid; Multivariate Tobit

Indexed keywords

AID FLOW; AID POLICY; DEVELOPING WORLD; FOOD AID; FOOD AVAILABILITY; LOW INCOME POPULATION; NATURAL DISASTER;

EID: 77952710559     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2010.00448.x     Document Type: Article

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