A new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office finds that congressional restrictions on food aid shipped from the United States delay and raise the costs of delivery to hungry people. A popular alternative, buying food locally or regionally, has its own pitfalls, disrupting local markets and creating shortages. CGD senior fellow Kim Elliott proposes that the United States give food aid as cash so recipient countries can buy food wherever it makes the most sense, on the basis of price and urgency.

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How much would it cost to expand AIDS treatment to all who need it? How much could these costs be cut by effective prevention? In an effort to make such life-and-death projections more transparent, CGD senior fellow Mead Over and research assistant Owen McCarthy have released a new toolset (manual, software, and dataset) for use with the Stata statistical analysis program. They explain the tools and invite Stata users to test the package and give feedback.

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