Christopher B. Barrett, Dan Maxwell

Food Aid After Fifty Years

Recasting its Role

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 669g
• ISBN-13: 9780415701242
• ISBN-10: 0415701244
• Artikelnr.: 21533440

Autorenporträt

Cornell University, New York, USA
CARE International, Georgia, USA

Inhaltsangabe

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