Food Aid After Fifty Years

Recasting its Role
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-415-70125-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 512 g

Reihe: Priorities for Development Economics

This book analyzes the impact food aid programmes have had over the past fifty years, assessing the current situation as well as future prospects. Issues such as political expediency, the impact of international trade and exchange rates are put under the microscope to provide the reader with a greater understanding of this important subject matter.

This book will prove vital to students of development economics and development studies and those working in the field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barrett, Christopher B.

Maxwell, Dan

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations, Foreword, Acknowledgments, List of abbreviations, Introduction, 1 The basics of food aid, 2 Donor-oriented food aid: the United States of America, 3 Multilateral and other bilateral donors, 4 International regulatory mechanisms and trade disputes, 5 So who benefits? The “iron triangle”, 6 Edging towards a recipient-oriented food aid system, 7 The uses of food aid to address food insecurity, 8 The management of food aid in addressing food insecurity, 9 Consequences of poor food aid management, 10 Recasting food aid’s role: the general strategy, 11 Recasting food aid’s role: the particulars and the politics, Glossary, Notes, Bibliography, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher B. Barrett, Dan Maxwell