Economic Growth and Agricultural Trade of Less-Developed Countries: Summary Report
探讨美国对欠发达国家的开发援助与农业出口之间的关系，分析援助如何通过促进受援国收入增长和粮食消费来影响农产品进口。
Competing claims regarding the complementarity of U.S. development assistance to less developed countries (LDCs) and U.S. agricultural exports have long been discussed by researchers, policymakers, and agricultural producers. The relationship between U.S. development assistance to LDCs and LC trade in agricultural products depends on two main linkages: (a) the link between development assistance and LDC income growth, and (b) the link between LDC income growth and increased food consumption. Food consumption growth that surpasses domestic production leads to increased agricultural commodity imports.