New Study | Trade Policy Options for Enhancing Food Aid Effectiveness
This paper looks at how food aid could be made more effective, in the light of recent food price trends, and examines how different approaches could affect trade and development.
The author argues in favour of establishing international rules that will provide a meaningful framework for ‘bona fide’ food aid.
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