Understanding and Improving Food Aid Targeting in Rural Ethiopia
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BACKGROUND: Governments and donor agencies have been grappling for decades with how to design and implement food aid programs in developing countries. Despite the enormity of cross-country food aid transfers, which were running as high as 15 million tons annually during the early 1990s, very little is known regarding how well food aid is targeted to intended beneficiaries by local governments and NGOs. The lack of monitoring information has impeded the ability to assess alternative targeting programs and to develop improved systems for allocating food aid in the future.
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تاریخ انتشار 2000