Shifting sands: The changing case for monetizing project food aid in Bangladesh
结合孟加拉国粮食与现金换工作项目的微观证据和多市场模拟模型,研究粮食援助货币化(当地销售粮食援助商品以筹资)的影响,发现从实物小麦援助转为现金换工作项目能明确改善穷人福利。
Monetization involves local sale of food aid commodities and using the cash to finance other programs. To explore the likely consequences of monetization, this paper combines a stockpile of recent microeconomic evidence from food and cash-for-work projects in Bangladesh together with a multimarket simulation model. Results suggest that a switch from food-for-work's (FFW) in-kind deliveries of wheat to an identical wheat-financed cash-for-work (CFW) program would unambiguously improve welfare of the poor.