Subcontracting Systems and Assistance Programs: Opportunities for Intervention

Donald C. Mead

No 54747, Food Security International Development Working Papers from Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics

Abstract: Because of the role which parent firms can play in identifying recipients, in specifying the nature of the assistance needed and in providing some required functions directly themselves in tandem with the activities supported by the aid program, subcontracting systems can provide a particularly cost-effective way of supplying aid to small producers.

Keywords: Food; Security; and; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38
Date: 1985
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.54747

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