"The spike in food prices between 2005 and the first half of 2008 has highlighted the vulnerabilities of poor consumers … percent of the population of the developing world. To assess the direct effects, the paper uses domestic food consumer price … data between January 2005 and December 2007--when the relative price of food rose by an average of 5.6 percent --to find …

of a severe global financial crisis. The adverse consequences of the food price hike for the poor are large; the global …. Governments in South Asia have responded by stabilizing domestic food prices through a number of short-term measures, tightened …

"Concerns have been raised about the impact of rising food prices worldwide on the poor. To assess the impact of rising … food prices in any particular country it is necessary to look at both the impact on food producers who are poor or near …-poor and could benefit from an increase in prices and food consumers who are poor or near-poor and would loose out when the …

"Telling a policy maker that poverty will increase due to the recent increase in food prices is not very useful … where higher food prices are likely to hurt the most using Guinea census and survey data as a case study. The results … the potential positive impact of higher food prices on rice producers is taken into account, in which case poverty may …

"Many countries have been affected by food and oil price shocks. Rising energy costs have manifested themselves through … electricity tariffs affordable through implicit subsidies (which are unfortunately often poorly targeted). For food prices, the …. Recent attention has therefore rightly been focused on food prices, but the issue of oil prices is important as well. While …

"The increase in food prices represents a major crisis for the world's poor. This paper aims to review the evidence on … the potential impact of higher food prices on poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, and examines the extent to which policy … responses will benefit the poor. The paper shows that rising food prices are likely to lead to higher poverty in sub …

"The rapid rise in food prices has been a burden on the poor in developing countries, who spend roughly half of their … household incomes on food. This paper examines the factors behind the rapid increase in internationally traded food prices since … 2002 and estimates the contribution of various factors such as the increased production of biofuels from food grains and …

Food price inflation not only threatens macroeconomic stability but also decreases the welfare levels of most … households, especially the poorer ones, for whom food consumption constitutes a relatively large share of total expenditures …. This report analyzes the causes and effects of food price inflation in South Asia during the period 2007?08 and beyond …