Does food aid harm the poor?
Subtitle: household evidence from Ethiopia
By: James Levinsohn, Margaret McMillan.
Contributors: McMillan, Margaret Stokes.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 11048; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 11048.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Food relief -- Ethiopia.; Poor -- Ethiopia.
Description: "This paper uses household-level data from Ethiopia to investigate the impact of food aid on the poor.  We find that food aid in Ethiopia is "pro-poor." Our results indicate that (i) net buyers of wheat are poorer than net sellers of wheat, (ii) there are more buyers of wheat than sellers of wheat at all levels of income, (iii) the proportion of net sellers is increasing in living standards and (iv) net benefit ratios are higher for poorer households indicating that poorer households benefit proportionately more from a drop in the price of wheat.  In light of this evidence, it appears that households at all levels of income benefit from food aid and that--somewhat surprisingly--the benefits go disproportionately to the poorest households"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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