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How the price of food is determined has become a critical issue, given the drastic surges in prices in recent years and the prevailing expectation of further increases. Along this line, this paper examines the sources of food price fluctuations in 11 developing Asian countries. The working model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010192320
How the price of food is determined has become a critical issue, given the drastic surges in prices in recent years and the prevailing expectation of further increases. Along this line, this paper examines the sources of food price fluctuations in 11 developing Asian countries. The working model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010992041
How the price of food is determined has become a critical issue, given the drastic surges in prices in recent years and the prevailing expectation of further increases. Along this line, this paper examines the sources of food price fluctuations in 11 developing Asian countries. The working model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076402
The global hunger indices of 2008 and 2009 (Grebmer et al. 2008, 2009) point to persistently high levels of hunger and food insecurity and a worsening of the situation due to rising crop prices. At the same time, there is a lack of empirical knowledge on the demand- and supply-side determinants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003987277
. Specifically, we examine the impact of monetary policy shocks on the relative food prices and the distribution of food consumption … policy shocks on relative food prices and the distribution of food consumption in rural and urban India using a dynamic … common factor model (Bernanke, Boivin, and Eliasz, 2005 and Stock and Watson, 2011), and identify monetary policy shocks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862929
Being the main food commodity, the dynamics of rice prices is one of the most important issues for Indonesian economy. The prices at the retail level and at the farm level are influenced not only by the demand and supply in each of these markets but also by price behavior at the wholesale...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015074628
Being the main food commodity, the dynamics of rice prices is one of the most important issues for Indonesian economy. The prices at the retail level and at the farm level are influenced not only by the demand and supply in each of these markets but also by price behavior at the wholesale...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014500663
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict constitutes a prominent example of a long-lasting political conflict which has major consequences for the livelihoods of the people on both sides. The agricultural sectors of the Palestinian and Israeli economies are tightly connected. However, various security...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329886
We assess market integration and price transmission of perishable agricultural produce in Sub-Saharan Africa by studying Ghanaian tomato markets which are characterized by pronounced seasonality in production and trade flows. We analyse the tomato markets of Ghana by simultaneously regarding its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330012
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict constitutes a prominent example of a long-lasting political conflict which has major consequences for the livelihoods of the people on both sides. The agricultural sectors of the Palestinian and Israeli economies are tightly connected. However, various security...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010356541