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Global Food Price Inflation and Policy Responses in Central Asia
Sumlinski, Mariusz A. - 2012
This paper examines the implications of elevated global food prices for inflation in select Central Asian economies - Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. The findings suggest that global food inflation has significant short-run effects that build over time. Inflation...
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Forecasting and Monetary Policy Analysis in Low-Income Countries : Food and Non-Food Inflation in Kenya
Andrle, Michal - 2015
We develop a semi-structural new-Keynesian open-economy model, with separate food and non-food inflation dynamics, for forecasting and monetary policy analysis in low-income countries and apply it to Kenya. We use the model to run several policy-relevant exercises. First, we filter international...
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Food Inflation in India : The Role for Monetary Policy
Anand, Rahul - 2015
Indian food and fuel inflation has remained high for several years, and second-round effects on core inflation are estimated to be large. This paper estimates the size of second-round effects using an estimated reduced-form general equilibrium model of the Indian economy, which incorporates...
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Are Foreign Aid and Remittance Inflows a Hedge Against Food Price Shocks?
Combes, Jean-Louis - 2013
This paper explores the role of foreign aid and remittance inflows in the mitigation of the effects of food price shocks. Using a large sample of developing countries and mobilising dynamic panel data specifications, the econometric results yield two important findings. First, remittance and aid...
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Imported Food Price Shocks and Socio-Political Instability : Do Fiscal Policy and Remittances Matter?
Meyimdjui, Carine - 2021
Using a panel of 101 low- and middle-income countries with data covering the period 1980-2012, this paper applies various econometric approaches that deal with endogeneity issues to assess the impact of food price shocks on socio-political instability once fiscal policy and remittances have been...
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Assessing the Macroeconomic Impact of Structural Reforms in Ukraine
Ari, Anil; Pula, Gabor - 2022
Ukraine’s economic performance has been anemic since the early 1990s. A major impediment to productivity growth has … institutional weakness in Ukraine and quantify the long-term growth impact of catching-up to Poland in terms of the quality of major … most optimistic scenario, where institutional gaps are fully addressed, Ukraine would need 15 years to catch up to Poland …
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Inequality and Poverty in India : Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic and Policy Response
Arbatli, Elif C.; Coppo, Mattia; Khalil, Nasser; … - 2023
Using microdata from nationally representative household and labor force surveys, we study the impact and drivers of poverty and inequality in India during the pandemic. We have three main findings. First, India has made significant progress in reducing poverty in recent decades, but the...
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A Tip Against the COVID-19 Pandemic
Cherif, Reda - 2020
A universal testing and isolation policy is the most viable way to vanquish a pandemic. Its implementation requires: (i) an epidemiological rather than clinical approach to testing, sacrificing accuracy for scalability, convenience and speed; and (ii) state intervention to ramp up production,...
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The Distributional Impact of Recessions : The Global Financial Crisis and the Pandemic Recession
Shibata, Ippei - 2020
Using the U.S. Current Population Survey data, this paper compares the distributional impacts of the Pandemic Crisis and those of the Global Financial Crisis in terms of (i) worker characteristics, (ii) job characteristics-'social' (where individuals interact to consume goods), 'teleworkable'...
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Assessing the Impact of Supply Disruptions on the Global Pandemic Recovery
Kemp, Harri; Portillo, Rafael; Santoro, Marika - 2023
We estimate the role of (pre-Ukraine war) supply disruptions in constraining the Covid-19 pandemic recovery, for …
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