find evidence that food aid has a pronounced J-curve effect on recipient country per capita commercial food imports, but …Although food aid may have important medium-to-long term effects, there is a glaring absence of empirical research on … food aid dynamics. This paper applies vector autoregression methods to data from 18 countries over the period 1961-95. We …

than 4 percent of net food imports over a period of six years for the countries considered, although for some of the larger …This paper attempts to assess the incremental external financing requirements occasioned by changes in world food … on estimates of changes in food prices due to the Round obtained in previous studies, and on detailed data on food trade …

This publication analyzes the use of voluntary standards and certification schemes in the food markets of the United …