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Foreign Aid and Consumption Smoothing: Evidence from Global Food Aid

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  • Sanjeev Gupta
  • Benedict Clements
  • Erwin R. Tiongson

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The paper examines the cyclical properties of food aid with respect to food availability in recipient countries, with a view to assessing its impact on consumption in some 150 developing countries and transition economies, covering 1970 to 2000. The results show that global food aid has been allocated to countries most in need. Food aid has also been countercyclical within countries with the greatest need. However, for most countries, food aid is not countercyclical. The amount of food aid provided is also insufficient to mitigate contemporaneous shortfalls in consumption.

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  • Sanjeev Gupta & Benedict Clements & Erwin R. Tiongson, 2004. "Foreign Aid and Consumption Smoothing: Evidence from Global Food Aid," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 8(3), pages 379-390, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:rdevec:v:8:y:2004:i:3:p:379-390
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9361.2004.00239.x
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