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

This paper develops an integrated model of the food aid distribution chain, from donor appropriations through operational agency programming decisions to household consumption choices. We use this model to simulate alternative policies and to perform sensitivity analysis to establish how varying und...

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Published in:	World development 2008-07, Vol.36 (7), p.1152-1172
Main Authors:	Lentz, Erin C., Barrett, Christopher B.
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Subjects:	Aid finance Allocative efficiency cargo preference Consumption Cost Development economics Food Food aid Foreign aid Households Humanitarian aid local and regional purchases monetization Public policy Reforms Sensitivity analysis Studies targeting tying U.S.A United States
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