We employ censored least absolute deviations and multivariate Tobit estimators to investigate whether food aid flows …. We also explore the hypothesis that donor countries specifically coordinate their food aid shipments to recipient … countries. Our findings show that food aid in aggregate and from each donor is significantly targeted at poorer countries and is …

We employ censored least absolute deviations and multivariate Tobit estimators to investigate whether food aid flows …. We also explore the hypothesis that donor countries specifically coordinate their food aid shipments to recipient … countries. Our findings show that food aid in aggregate and from each donor is significantly targeted at poorer countries and is …

This paper explores the empirical relationship between U.S. food aid flows per capita and nonconcessional food …, 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 …

are essential if food aid is to succeed in its core mission to contribute to human development by providing temporary … the how questions surrounding transfers: is aid reaching people who need it (and not flowing to people who do not need it … require costly administrative screening. Targeting is of special importance in food aid for two basic reasons. First, food is …

articulate a shared vision as to how food aid fits into a strategy to reduce poverty and to fulfill and protect human rights, (2 …Food aid stands at a crossroads today. Major policy decisions will be made in the coming year as to the direction food … aid will follow for the next decade or more. NGO leaders need to decide soon how to engage these debates. If the NGOs fail …

food aid programs, the largest of which is PL480, have brought together governments, businesses, multilateral institutions … contributed more than 340 million metric tons of food aid to save and improve the lives of many hundreds of millions of poor and …