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Food Aid and the WTO: Can New Rules Be Effective?*
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face=+Italic; Assistant Professor, Department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics, University of Manitobaface=-Italic;
A new Agreement on Agriculture from the Doha Development Agenda negotiations is certain to contain binding rules on food aid shipments. Negotiating parties are concerned that food aid has been used as a form of export competition policy, and they seek the use of coercive WTO legislation to prevent the disposal ...
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FOOD AID:GAWAIN KRIPKE
Congressional Testimony
; Congressional Testimony 05-25-2006 Statement of Gawain Kripke Senior Policy Advisor Oxfam America Committee on House International Relations Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations May 25, 2006 Mr. Chairman, Congressman Payne, and Members of the Subcommittee, thank
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Food aid and poverty.
American Journal of Agricultural Economics
; One of the primary objectives of food aid is poverty alleviation. This is true independent of the type of food aid (see Barrett 2007 for an excellent overview of the various types of U.S. food aid). Advocates of food aid argue: it is an effective means of reducing hunger; when used for food for
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Food aid: is it development assistance, trade promotion, both, or neither?(Proceedings: The Role of Food in Twenty-First Century Development and Trade Policy)
American Journal of Agricultural Economics
; Food aid has been a key element of post-World War II agricultural development and trade policy for major donors like the United States. A common argument heard in Washington is that food aid creates win-win opportunities by stimulating agricultural development and thus income growth in poor,
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Shortfalls in international food aid expected. (includes related article on countries receiving food aid)
Food Review
; Food aid is a necessary resource for the many countries that experience food insecurity when food supplies are not sufficient to provide all people all the time with adequate food for an active and healthy life. Some countries face chronic food insecurity because of slow growth in domestic
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Does food aid have a future?(Proceedings: The Role of Food in Twenty-First Century Development and Trade Policy)
American Journal of Agricultural Economics
; In this comment, I will first place food aid in the context of development assistance and then turn to the issues addressed in the papers presented in this session. Does development assistance have a future? My response is, not in the form that we have known it in the past. For those of us who have
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