This paper attempts to assess the incremental external financing requirements occasioned by changes in world food … on estimates of changes in food prices due to the Round obtained in previous studies, and on detailed data on food trade … by country and commodity, the present study shows that the increase in net food import costs are likely to be smaller …

This paper studies the relationship between trade policy and food prices. We show that, when individuals are loss … averse, governments may use trade policy to shield the domestic economy from large food price shocks. This creates a … complementarity between the price of food in international markets and trade policy. Specifically, unilateral actions give rise to a …

The exposure of low-income countries to natural disasters has a significant impact on food production and food security …. This paper provides a framework for assessing a country's vulnerability to food crisis in the event of natural disasters …-income countries to adverse external shocks are equally important for minimizing the occurrence of food crisis in the event of natural …

only have short-run effects. The dynamics of inflation are also found to be influenced by food supply constraints. Moreover …

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 …

In Jordan, a system of general food subsidies became untenable in budgetary terms, with a sharp devaluation of the …