Research Catalog

Title

International finance for food security / Barbara Huddleston [and others].

Publication

Baltimore : Published for the World Bank [by] the Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984.

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Additional Authors

• Huddleston, Barbara, 1939-
• World Bank.

Description

x, 100 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

The study discusses the economic justification for an international food financing facility, examines various approaches, and assesses the merits and probable impact of the facility finally adopted by the IMF. A food financial facility is essentially an alternative, complementary arrangement to reduce food supply shortfalls in low-income food deficit countries. A financial facility to reduce constraints on food imports is not sufficient for the achievement of food security. Fluctuations in consumption will persist unless incomes and food prices are stabilized. At the core of this analysis of probable stabilization benefits and pursuant demands on an internationally sponsored food import bill insurance scheme is a simulation model. The simulation experiments for six sample countries illustrate the strong influence of a government's policies on its food security and on its likely drawings from an international financing facility. An integrated scheme would result in a lower average of drawings for food imports than a separate facility because high food import bills are sometimes offset by high export earnings. However, when cereal production is short, import prices high, and foreign exchange availability limited, the scheme would provide most of the needed foreign exchange.

Series Statement

A World Bank publication

Uniform Title

A World Bank publication.

Subject

• Internationaler Währungsfonds
• Food supply > Developing countries > Finance > International cooperation
• Finanzierung
• Lebensmittelversorgung
• Voedselvoorziening
• Financiering
• Developing countries
• Entwicklungsländer

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 93-95.

ISBN

• 0801830702
• 9780801830709

LCCN

83048109

OCLC

• ocm10429707
• 10429707
• SCSB-96328

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library