Showing posts with label food aid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food aid. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Incinerating food aid

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 Here's a story from The Atlantic about a decision that captures the Trump administration's policies towards food aid, carbon emissi...
Monday, April 21, 2025

Food: from luxuries to tragedies--chocolate and peanut butter at the opposite ends of human welfare

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Below are two stories about food, that couldn't be more different (although the foods, chocolate and peanut butter, have some connection...
Monday, August 1, 2022

The Allocation of Food to Food Banks by Canice Prendergast in the JPE

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  The Allocation of Food to Food Banks by Canice Prendergast ,  Journal of Political Economy  130, 8, 1993-2017. Abstract: "Feeding Am...
Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Feeding America: Podcast on HBS case study of Canice Prendergast and Feeding America

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Here's an audio interview of Canice Prendergast and Scott Kominers (who wrote the HBS case study) about the work that Prendergast and ...
Friday, November 13, 2015

Canice Prendergast on The Allocation of Food to Food Banks

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Market design has arrived at Chicago, here's a nice paper presented at the recent NBER market design conference.: The Allocation of F...
Sunday, October 19, 2008

Black market in poverty--fraudulent ration cards

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The Hindu reports: Hi-tech foodgrains rationing system introduced for below poverty line families "Bangalore: The State Government has ...
Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Purchase for Progress

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Gates Foundation to Fund Experimental Food Aid Program "UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 24 -- The world's largest philanthropy on Wednesday a...