This review highlights three main findings. First, school feeding programs in low-income countries exhibit large variation in cost, with concomitant opportunities for cost containment. Second, as countries get richer, school feeding costs become a much smaller proportion of the investment in...

The Jamaican food stamps programme has proved to be administratively viable and much better targeted than the general food subsidy programme that it replaces. It is therefore of interest to those concerned with designing targeted nutrition or poverty interventions. This article gives a brief...