@article{Dorosh:16218,
      recid = {16218},
      author = {Dorosh, Paul A. and Shahabuddin, Quazi and Aziz, Md. Abdul  and Farid, Naser},
      title = {BUMPER CROPS, PRODUCER INCENTIVES AND PERSISTENT POVERTY:  IMPLICATIONS FOR FOOD AID PROGRAMS IN BANGLADESH},
      address = {2002},
      number = {595-2016-39967},
      series = {MSSD Discussion Paper},
      pages = {59},
      year = {2002},
      abstract = {Food aid has played a useful role in Government of  Bangladesh efforts to
increase food security in the last  three decades, adding to foodgrain availability,
supplying  wheat for targeted distribution to poor households, and  helping to
finance development projects and programs.  However, sustained increases in
domestic production of both  rice and wheat have increased the likelihood  of
disincentive effects arising from continued large  inflows of food aid.
The analysis shows that if good rice  harvests continue so that real rice
prices remain at their  levels of 2000, and if international wheat prices return  to
their average 1995-99 levels, then public wheat  distribution may need to be cut
to levels below the current  amount of food aid received (650 thousand tons  in
2000/2001) to avoid reducing domestic prices below  import parity.
However, resources will continue to be  required for programs that
increase access to food by the  poor, contribute to increased utilization of food
and  result in improved nutritional outcomes, even if the need  for food aid to
increase availability of foodgrains  diminishes.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/16218},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.16218},
}