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supply and demand factors are important. Cereal and edible oil prices appear to be mainly driven by supply-side factors such … as production, wage rates, and minimum support prices. For pulses, the effects of supply- and demand-side factors appear … almost equal. The prices of eggs, meat, fish, milk, and fruits and vegetables appear to be driven mainly by demand …
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modeling system of international agriculture commodity markets. We specifically focus on three different scenarios — subsidy as …
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Undernutrition remains a major source of human suffering and an obstacle to national economic and human development in many African countries. This report investigates undernutrition's persistence, drawing on case studies of the public response to the problem in Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, and...
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large government subsidies, and in many countries, demand has been meager even at prices well below fair-market rates …
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, the most food-insecure country in Central Asia. In particular, in this study we measure how well wheat market prices in … price relationships, a.k.a. rockets and feathers, we demonstrate how prices change in peripheral food-shortage markets …
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Can more vigorous political competition significantly raise rural land values, or contribute to more robust land rental markets? Exploiting exogenous variation in the national popularity of Pakistan’s political parties during the 2008 elections, we show that provincial assembly constituencies...
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This paper analyzes the impacts of adopting restrictive import policies for chicken meat in Ghana, which would be like the policies adopted in Nigeria. A prohibitive tariff stimulates domestic chicken meat production but also imposes significant costs on consumers and encourages illicit trade....
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For many years poverty reduction was the overarching welfare objective of a wide range of development institutions and programs, particularly in the context of agricultural development. Yet in recent years the development community has increasingly set for itself more specific welfare objectives...
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Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. It captures the main features of the nutrition transition: rise in demand for …
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