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The political economy of food pricing policy in China

Huang, Jikun; Yang, Jun; Rozelle, Scott - 2013

The overall goal of this paper is to analyse the political economy of food price policies in China during the global food crisis. The results show that given China's unique economic and political context and the nature of its agricultural markets, the government's reaction to the crisis was...

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The political economy of food price policy : country case study of Mozambique

Nhate, Virgulino; Massingarela, Claudio; Salvucci, Vincenzo - 2013

The 2007-09 price shocks affected in particular the prices of food commodities and fuel. As a consequence, Mozambique experienced reduced exports, more expensive imports and increased food and oil prices, contributing to the stagnant poverty rates registered in 2008/9. Our analysis finds, first,...

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Distributional impacts of the 2008 global food price spike in Vietnam

McKay, Andrew D.; 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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Evaluating monetary policy options for managing resource revenue shocks when fiscal policy is laissez-faire : application to Nigeria

Chuku, Chuku Agbai - 2016

This study considers the implications of alternative monetary policy regimes to deal with a laissez-faire fiscal policy rule, where the government completely spends resource revenue windfall contemporaneously. A three sector dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model, which features key...

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Agricultural commodity price shocks and their effect on growth in sub-Saharan Africa

Addison, Tony; Ghoshray, Atanu - 2013

Commodity price shocks are an important type of external shock and are often cited as a problem for economic growth in … sub-Saharan Africa. This paper quantifies the impact of agricultural commodity price shocks using a near vector … definition of a price shock that allows us to determine whether the response of per capita Gross domestic product (GDP) growth in …

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Pandemics and their impact on oil and metal prices

Addison, Tony; Ghoshray, Atanu - 2020

response of commodity prices to the shock. …

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Vulnerability to natural shocks : assessing the short-term impact on consumption and poverty of the 2015 flood in Mozambique

Salvucci, Vincenzo; Santos, Ricardo - 2019

Mozambique is among the most disaster-prone countries in the world. A bigger than usual, and mostly unexpected, flood occurred in the central-northern region of the country in the first few months of 2015, causing huge damage to infrastructures. In this paper, we use a nationally representative...

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The effects of wartime institutions on households' ability to cope with shocks : evidence for Colombia

Ibáñez, Ana María; Arteaga, Julián; Cárdenas … - 2019

This paper studies the legacies of wartime institutions, measured as rebelocracy, on the ability of households to cope with negative income shocks. Rebelocracy is the social order established by non-state armed actors in the communities they control. By providing public goods and a predictable...

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Digital labour platforms as shock absorbers : evidence from COVID-19

Jones, Sam; Manhique, Ivan - 2022

Digital labour platforms have grown five-fold over the last decade, enabling significant expansion in gig work worldwide. We interrogate the criticism that these platforms tend to amplify aggregate economic shocks for registered users (workers). Based on the universe of records from a matching...

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Aid effectiveness : opening the black box

Arndt, Channing; Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2011

Controversy over the aggregate impact of foreign aid has focused on reduced form estimates of the aid-growth link. The causal chain, through which aid affects developmental outcomes including growth, has received much less attention. We address this gap by: (i) specifying a structural model of...

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