Journalartikel

Autorenliste: PRINZ, C

Jahr der Veröffentlichung: 1991

Seiten: 310-335

Zeitschrift: Jahrbuch für Sozialwissenschaft: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Bandnummer: 42

Heftnummer: 3

ISSN: 0075-2770

Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Abstract: 

This article shows that the legal framework of EC's food aid policy has changed since the beginning in 1968. EC's food aid has altered from an instrument of surplus disposal to an independent part of EC's development policy. It consists of several instruments of aid like: emergency food aid, triangular transactions, substitution operations, storage programmes, early warning systems, and cofinancing of seeds. Moreover, objectives and allocation criteria were declared late in 1982 and the constitution of a Committee for Food Aid was established which reduces the rights of the Council of Ministers concerning food-aid actions. Simultaneously, the existence of this committee should lead to a faster provision of food-aid deliveries than in the past. The official allocation criteria are: fundamental food requirements, per-capita income, and the balance-of-payments situation.

For the period 1983-85, regression analysis was applied to test in a cross-country analysis whether these allocation criteria determine the international distribution of EC's food aid in cereals. The computations confirm that per-capita income and the balance-of-payments situation are crucial in the allocation process, whereas the fundamental food requirements were found to have no influence on the EC cereal food aid deliveries. The estimations suggest that other allocation criteria besides the official ones must determine the amount of food aid the developing country receives from the EC. The elaboration of these additional allocation criteria is one part of future research.

Harvard-Zitierstil: PRINZ, C. (1991) DO THE POSTULATED DISTRIBUTION CRITERIA EXPLAIN THE INTERNATIONAL ALLOCATION OF EC FOOD AID, JAHRBUCH FUR SOZIALWISSENSCHAFT, 42(3), pp. 310-335

APA-Zitierstil: PRINZ, C. (1991). DO THE POSTULATED DISTRIBUTION CRITERIA EXPLAIN THE INTERNATIONAL ALLOCATION OF EC FOOD AID. JAHRBUCH FUR SOZIALWISSENSCHAFT. 42(3), 310-335.