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Food price spikes, price insulation and poverty

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Food Price Spikes, Price Insulation, and Poverty

Anderson, Kym; Ivanic, Maros; Martin, Will - 2013

to estimate the combined impact of such insulating behavior on poverty in various developing countries and globally. The … analysis finds that the actual poverty-reducing impact of insulation is much less than its apparent impact, and that its net … effect was to increase global poverty in 2008 by 8 million people, although this increase was not significantly different …

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