The Food Stamp Scheme in Sri Lanka

Costs, Benefits, and Options for Modification

• Author(s): Neville Edirisinghe,
• Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
• Pages: 85
• ISBN_10: 089629059X
  ISBN_13: 9780896290594
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Agriculture & Food ,

Description:... The policy change; Price subsidy and food stamp benefits; The beneficiaries; The effect on fiscal costs and income distribution; Patterns of food consumption and nutrition before and after the subsidy program change; Inflation and the real value of food stamps; Impact of food stamps on nutrition and cost-effectiveness; The nutrition of children and income transfer.