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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 estimates the welfare change arising from the capture of the Republic of Yemen's capital in 2014, using a multi-themed household survey conducted as the capital was captured. Despite the little violence in this setting, the increase in fragility resulted in a large decline in...
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harvests and seasonality - two critical dimensions of smallholder agriculture in Africa - mediate the effects of export bans on …
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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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