FOOD AID, FOOD POLICY AND THE URUGUAY ROUND: IMPLICATIONS FOR BANGLADESH

The relationship between the effects of food aid and those of the completion
of the Uruguay Round of the GATT are studied in this paper, focussing
upon the food aid recipient countries, taking Bangladesh as an illustrative
example. The magnitudes of these effects depend crucially on the policy
environment within the food aid recipient country itself, particularly the
government's policy with respect to commercial food imports, as well as the
way food aid donors respond to the Round. When the quantity of
Bangladesh's commercial food imports is controlled by the government, the
benefits derived from food aid are smaller, and the negative effects of the
Uruguay Round will be larger, than when these imports are liberalised.
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