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Restricting cross-border trade through export bans in an attempt to stabilize domestic prices has been a particularly … harvests and seasonality - two critical dimensions of smallholder agriculture in Africa - mediate the effects of export bans on … household welfare. This study assesses the short-term impact of export bans on prices and welfare of households in Malawi …
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affected through workers' morbidity and containment policies. It then estimates how escalating export restrictions to shield … pandemic, the global export supply of food could decrease between 6 and 20 percent and global prices increase between 2 and 6 … percent on average. Escalating export restrictions would multiply the initial shock by a factor of 3, with world food prices …
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How do trade reforms impact households in different parts of the income distribution? This paper presents a new database, the Household Impacts of Tariffs data set, which contains harmonized household survey and tariff data for 54 low- and lower-middle income countries. The data cover highly...
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The impact of drought on household welfare is the cumulative effect of crop losses and price changes in a local economy that are triggered by these initial losses. This paper combines data on monthly grain prices and wages in 82 retail markets over 17 years with data on district-level weather...
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In the event of large swings in world food prices, countries often intervene to dampen the impact of international food price spikes on domestic prices and to lessen the burden of adjustment on vulnerable population groups. While individual countries can succeed at insulating their domestic...
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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 Standards Measurement Survey and utilizes market prices...
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