1. The cost of cargo preference for international food aid programs
- Author:
- Vincent H. Smith
- Publication Date:
- 03-2020
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
- Abstract:
- The federal government annually appropriates funds for food aid programs that the US Agency for International Development manages to benefit some of the neediest individuals in the world. This report analyzes how one interest group, the US maritime industry, has managed to obtain rents from the Title II food aid program through cargo preference requirements in the name of national security. We find that removing cargo preference requirements would allow for between $36 and $64 million of already appropriated funds to go to feeding the hungry and would benefit US soft power globally.
- Topic:
- Maritime, USAID, Mercantile Policy, and Food Assistance
- Political Geography:
- North America, Global Focus, and United States of America