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The Republic of Yemen has undergone a profound transformation following the escalation of conflict in March 2015. There has been an increase in violence, a disruption in supply chains due to a tightening of the ports, and a decline in the general economic climate that has left a large share of...
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This paper looks at how changing food prices affect child undernutrition in Ethiopia. It derives height for age … (stunting) and weight for height (wasting) as indicators of child undernutrition from the two most recent years of the Livings … to suppress cereal price increases may have adverse effects on poverty reduction in the long term by undermining …
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Using a high-frequency mobile phone survey of food security conducted by the World Food Programme, this paper …
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.3 million people (nearly 1 percent of the world's poor) into poverty …In the event of large swings in world food prices, countries often intervene to dampen the impact of international food … intervention of many countries may exacerbate the volatility of world prices. Insulating policies introduced during the 2010 …
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One reason that poor people may not capture the full benefit from participation in international markets is that the goods they produce tend to be subject to relatively high trade barriers. This paper analyzes market access barriers faced by households in different income deciles by matching...
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