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Poverty impact of food price shocks and policies

Laborde Debucquet, David; Lakatos, Csilla; Martin, Will - 2019

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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Covid-19 and food protectionism : the impact of the pandemic and export restrictions on world food markets

Espitia, Alvaro; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - 2020

initial shock due to the pandemic under the assumption that products that are more labor intensive in production are more … domestic food markets could magnify the initial shock. The analysis shows that, in the quarter following the outbreak of the … percent on average. Escalating export restrictions would multiply the initial shock by a factor of 3, with world food prices …

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Food prices, access to markets and child undernutrition in Ethiopia

Brenton, Paul; Nyawo, Mike - 2019

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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The short-term impact of higher food prices on poverty in Uganda

Simler, Kenneth - 2010

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Impact of grain trade policies on prices and welfare : evidence from Malawi

Fuje, Habtamu; Pullabhotla, Hemant - 2020

Restricting cross-border trade through export bans in an attempt to stabilize domestic prices has been a particularly popular policy tool used by many sub-Saharan countries in recent years. However, little is known about how the variability in harvests and seasonality - two critical dimensions...

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Rising food prices in Sub-Saharan Africa : poverty impact and policy responses

Wodon, Quentin (contributor); Zaman, Hassan (contributor) - 2008

"The increase in food prices represents a major crisis for the world's poor. This paper aims to review the evidence on the potential impact of higher food prices on poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, and examines the extent to which policy responses will benefit the poor. The paper shows that rising...