17 Foreign Aid and Consumption Smoothing: Evidence from Global Food Aid
Author:
Sanjeev Gupta
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English
Print Publication Date:
17 Sep 2004
Keywords:
BOOK; country; user payment; per capita income; francophone country; recipient country; exchange rate; hazard function; Health care spending; Africa; Western Hemisphere; Sub-Saharan Africa; Global; Asia and Pacific

Abstract

The debate on aid effectiveness has largely focused on the impact of aggregate “development assistance” on economic growth or economic development more broadly (Easterly, 2001; World Bank, 1998). As a result, relatively little attention has been paid to how well certain components of foreign aid achieve their stated objectives, such as disaster relief, humanitarian assistance, and food aid. In this paper, we focus on one particularly important component of foreign aid—food aid—and evaluate whether it helps stabilize consumption in recipient countries, and whether it has been targeted to those countries most in need.

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Cover Helping Countries Develop
Helping Countries Develop
The Role of Fiscal Policy
ISBN:
9781589063181
Publication Date:
17 Sep 2004
Publisher:
International Monetary Fund
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781589063181.071
Pages:
540
Front Matter
1 Fiscal Policy for Economic Development: An Overview
I Macroeconomic Policy in Developing Countries
II Public Spending and the Millennium Development Goals
III Revenues and Growth
IV. Fiscal Policy and Aid
V. Special Topics

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