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tifel and Alderman evaluate the Vaso de Leche (VL) feeding program in Peru. They pose the question that if a community-based multistage targeting scheme such as that of the VL program is progressive, is it possible that the program can achieve its nutritional objectives? The authors address this by linking VL public expenditure data with household survey data to assess the targeting, and then to model the determinants of nutritional outcomes of children to see if VL program interventions have an impact on nutrition. They confirm that the VL program is well targeted to poor households and to those with low nutritional status. While the bulk of the coverage of the poor is attributed to targeting of poor districts, the fact that the poor receive larger in-kind transfers is attributed to intradistrict targeting. But the impact of these food subsidies beyond their value as income transfers is limited by the degree to which the commodity transfers are inframarginal. The authors find that transfers of milk and milk substitutes from the VL program are inframarginal for approximately half of the households that receive them. So, it is not entirely surprising that they fail to find econometric evidence of the nutritional objectives of the VL program being achieved. In models of child standardized heights, the authors find no impact of the VL program expenditures on the nutritional outcomes of young children--the group to whom the program is targeted. This paper--a product of Public Services, Development Research Group--is part of a larger effort in the group to understand the distribution of public services.

Food relief. --- Food relief --- International cooperation.

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Food supply --- Food relief --- Income distribution --- Poor

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Food relief --- School children --- Surplus agricultural commodities --- Food --- United States.

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Cet ouvrage étudie en détail deux questions liées à l’aide alimentaire. D’abord il examine l’efficacité de l’aide alimentaire pour promouvoir la sécurité alimentaire et la lutte contre la pauvreté. Il s’agit là d’une question qui n’est toujours pas tranchée : les études indépendantes sur les activités de développement liées à l’aide alimentaire oscillent entre un optimisme prudent et un pessimisme nuancé. Cette étude montre clairement que l’aide alimentaire en nature a des coûts importants estimés à au moins 30% en moyenne. Par contre, la plupart des achats locaux et des importations issues de la région sont des moyens efficaces de fournir une aide alimentaire. On pourrait ainsi réaliser des gains d’efficience considérables en élargissant les sources d’approvisionnement en denrées alimentaires. Cette étude montre qu’une aide financière constitue dans la plupart des cas la meilleure solution. C’est presque toujours le moyen le plus efficace de financer une distribution directe de vivres ou d’apporter une aide budgétaire au développement en général ou à des projets.

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