We address the long standing concern that food-aid works as a disincentive for recipient country agricultural production, by increasing recipient food supply and driving down food prices. This analytical conclusion, while widely accepted in the literature, relies on implausible Arrow-Debreu...

Although food aid may have important medium-to-long term effects, there is a glaring absence of empirical research on food aid dynamics. This paper applies vector autoregression methods to data from 18 countries over the period 1961-95. We find evidence that food aid has a pronounced J-curve...