Arbeitspapier

Food deficits, food security and food aid: concepts and measurement

The concepts of food deficit, hunger, undernourishment and food security are discussed. Axioms and indices for the assessment of nutrition of individuals and groups are suggested. Furthermore a measure for food aid donor performance is developed and applied to a sample of bilateral and multilateral donors providing food aid for African countries.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Finanzwissenschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge ; No. 21

Classification
Wirtschaft
Measurement and Analysis of Poverty

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Gabbert, Silke
Weikard, Hans-Peter
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Universität Potsdam, Lehrstuhl Finanzwissenschaft
(where)
Potsdam
(when)
1998

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8589
Last update
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Gabbert, Silke
  • Weikard, Hans-Peter
  • Universität Potsdam, Lehrstuhl Finanzwissenschaft

Time of origin

  • 1998

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