Review the site to identify the members and purpose of the organization.
Click on "Field Operations" to go to a menu of countries that receive aide.
The World Food Programme gives aide to more countries in which regions of the world? Based on the discussion of world poverty in the text, why do you think these areas have more countries receiving aide?
Identify a specific aide program for an individual country that addresses poverty by
improving the quality of the country's labor force
increasing capital accumulation or the amount of social overhead capital
increasing the level of technology
decreasing population growth or increasing the opportunity cost of women
Go to http://www.heifer.org/. This is the site for Heifer Project International, a private, charitable organization.
Review the site to identify the history and purpose of the project.
How dies HPI help reduce hunger in developing countries?
In the long-run, how does HPI's approach differ from direct food aide?
How does HPI's aide affect the production possibilities curve of a village?
Find an internet site that provides current data on the following, for individual countries;
