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Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
Title:The Politics of Adjustment: The African Case
Author:Hopkins, Raymond F.ISNI
Year:1988
Periodical:Food Policy
Volume:13
Issue:1
Period:February
Pages:47-55
Language:English
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:economic policy
food aid
Development and Technology
Economics and Trade
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
Politics and Government
External link:https://doi.org/10.1016/0306-9192(88)90007-3
Abstract:Food aid has been used consciously and increasingly for promoting structural adjustment, and has had a major impact on the economic programmes of many States in the 1980s, particularly in Africa. This article considers the politics of adjustment programmes and food aid, and the dilemmas which arise, including the effects of food subsidies, conditionality, overhead costs, varying food needs, and attitudes towards food aid. New approaches and more coordination are needed if food aid, to Africa in particular, is to be even moderately effective in aiding countries making major policy changes. Ref.
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