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Rent-seeking behavior in US international food aid programs

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  • Stephanie Mercier

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US food aid programs provide rents to interest groups through cargo preference requirements and purchasing requirements raising program costs, resulting in US food aid not efficiently achieving its goals of increasing US soft power and alleviating global hunger.

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  • Stephanie Mercier, 2019. "Rent-seeking behavior in US international food aid programs," AEI Economic Perspectives, American Enterprise Institute, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:aei:journl:y:2019:id:1007676
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    special interests; Agriculture Policy; AEI Economic Perspectives; Foreign aid; hunger; food; Rent seeking; aid; Jones Act; Mercantile Policy;
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    • A - General Economics and Teaching

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