Do Commodity Prices and Food Production Affect the Volume of United States Foreign Food Aid?
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Title:
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Do Commodity Prices and Food Production Affect the Volume of United States Foreign Food Aid? |
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Author:
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Wiltsee, Jim
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Advisor:
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Ghosh, Indradeep
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Department:
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Haverford College. Dept. of Economics |
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Type:
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Thesis (B.A.) |
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Issue Date:
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2009 |
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Abstract:
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The main focus of this paper is to analyze whether a country-specific commodity price index and a food production index have strong explanatory power on determining the volume of United States foreign food aid flows to low-income countries. The study uses panel data for seventy-six countries spanning from 2001-2007. I ran three regression models: two ordinary least squares regressions with fixed effects and a conditional logit model. The results I find are that the commodity price index variable has low explanatory power and that many of the country-specific attributes, including those that relate it to the donor (U.S.) are more significant. Lastly, food aid should be purely a humanitarian program by the United States, but political, strategic, and income factors play an important role in determining the allocation of US food aid flows. |
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Subject:
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Food relief, American -- Government policy -- United States
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Subject:
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Food relief, American -- Economic aspects
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Terms of Use:
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/
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Permanent URL:
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http://hdl.handle.net/10066/3651
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Wiltsee, Jim.
"Do Commodity Prices and Food Production Affect the Volume of United States Foreign Food Aid?".
2009. Available electronically from
http://hdl.handle.net/10066/3651.
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