DOES FOOD AID STABILIZE FOOD AVAILABILITY?

Christopher Barrett

No 14757, Working Papers from Cornell University, Department of Applied Economics and Management

Abstract: This paper explores the empirical relationship between U.S. food aid flows per capita and nonconcessional food availability per capita in PL 480 recipient economies. The evidence suggests PL 480, while modestly progressive in its distribution, is if anything procyclical in recipient economies. Food aid fails to stabilize food availability. Both increased domestic food production - i.e., agricultural development - and commercial trade appear more effective than food aid in advancing food security objectives through the stabilization of food availability per capita in low-income economies.

Keywords: Food; Security; and; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.14757

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