Assessing the Impact of Food Aid on Recipient Countries: A Survey

Titus O. Awokuse ()

No 06-11, Working Papers from Agricultural and Development Economics Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO - ESA)

Abstract: This paper surveys the economic literature on the impacts of food aid on recipient countries. The paper reviews the conceptual and empirical challenges associated with evaluating the impacts of food aid and surveys the main analytical techniques that are used in such evaluations. It then summarizes the available economic evidence on the impacts of food aid on national economic development, domestic agricultural production and markets, commercial trade and the nutritional status of recipients.

Keywords: food aid; aid effectiveness; nutrition; trade; production; prices. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F35 O19 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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