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Effects of food price shocks on child malnutrition: The Mozambican experience 2008/09
Arndt, Channing; Hussain, M. Azhar; Østerdal, Lars Peter - 2012
inflation with child malnutrition status. We find that the prevalence of underweight amongst children rises in response to a … higher inflation rate for basic food products. Stunting and wasting malnutrition measures are mostly insensitive to the … inflation rate. The very high food inflation during 2008/09 was responsible for an extra 39,000 moderately underweight and 24 …
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Characteristics and determinants of child malnutrition in Mozambique, 2003-11
Cardoso, José; Allwright, Lindsey; Salvucci, Vincenzo - 2016
Child malnutrition continues to be a serious impediment to development both at the individual and national levels in many developing countries. In Mozambique, despite a high and sustained GDP growth, child malnutrition has been decreasing at a rather slow pace over the past 15 years. In this...
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The political economy of food price policy: A synthesis
Watson, Derrill D. - 2015
This paper identifies eight political economy factors that influenced governments' policy choices during the most recent global food price crisis. To explain the variety of responses and the policy failures, a framework is proposed that locates policies along the twin dimensions of unitary vs....
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A cacophony of policy responses: Evidence from fourteen countries during the 2007/08 food price crisis
Bryan, Shane - 2013
Phenomenal increases in food prices in 2007 and 2008 caused governments around the globe to panic. During the chaos which ensued, most developing countries responded to the crisis with a convoluted array of policies intended to stabilize domestic markets, placate consumers and other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319822
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Trans-border land acquisitions: A new guise of outsourcing and host country effects
Das, Gouranga - 2012
The rush for land acquisition - primarily driven by food shortages, food price volatility, and the run for agrofuel - has drawn considerable attention, as documented by reports published in late 2009, 2010, and 2011. Terminological differences aside, it is - quite distinct from material or...
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Food policy volatility and EU policies
Swinnen, Johan; Knops, Louise; Van Herck, Kristine - 2013
Changes in global food prices have affected EU producers and consumers and have triggered policy reactions through the EU's political process. In particular, the EU and member states responded by social policies to protect their consumers, attempts to regulate 'speculation' on agricultural...
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The political economy of food price policy: The case of Kenya
Nzuma, Jonathan Makau - 2013
This paper evaluates Kenya's food price crisis over 2002 - 11 using a political economy approach. Kenya's food prices have been high and volatile relative to world food prices. Moreover, domestic food markets are highly integrated while about 30 per cent of the changes in world market prices are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319921
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Distributional impacts of the 2008 global food price spike in Vietnam
McKay, Andy; Tarp, Finn - 2014
Agriculture and food cultivation production remains a key sector in the Vietnamese economy in terms of productive activities, income generation, and national export earnings. Higher world market prices should therefore in principle have a beneficial impact on rural farmers. This is based however...
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Smoothing food price trends in Nigeria: Political economy issues and policy vistas
Olomola, Aderibigbe S. - 2015
This study reviews the political economy issues surrounding the 2008 food crisis in Nigeria; the lessons learned from management of the crisis; analyses the performance of policies aimed at stabilizing prices; and proffers policy measures for preventing future occurrence. The study finds that the...
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Can commercial farming promote rural dynamism in sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Mozambique
Glover, Steven M.; Jones, Sam - 2016
The impact of large commercial farms on neighbouring smallholders in low-income sub-Saharan Africa remains controversial. Bringing evidence to a largely anecdotal debate, we deploy a dataset covering all commercial farms in Mozambique, linking them to a nationally representative survey of...
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