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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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Analyzing Food Price Trends in the Context of Engel's Law and the Prebisch-Singer Hypothesis
Baffes, John - 2015
Income growth in emerging economies has often been cited as a key driver of the past decade's com-modity price boom-the longest and broadest boom since World War II. This paper shows that income has a negative and highly significant effect on real food commodity prices, a finding that is...
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Who wins and who loses from staple food price spikes? : welfare implications for Mozambique
Baez, Javier E.; Caruso, Germán; Pullabhotla, Hemant - 2018
With a large share of the population dependent on agriculture and high exposure to natural disasters and other food price shocks, the welfare impacts of food price inflation in Mozambique cannot be ignored. This paper performs incidence analysis exploiting the spatial location of households to...
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The Distributive Impact of Terms of Trade Shocks
Bussolo, Maurizio - 2017
-micro simulation model, the paper assesses how this shock affects poverty, inequality, and shared prosperity for the case of the …
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Inflation in low-income countries
Ha, Jongrim; Ivanova, Anna; Montiel, Peter; Pedroni, … - 2019
This paper studies the effects of global and domestic inflation shocks on core price inflation in 105 countries between 1970 and 2016, by using a heterogeneous panel vector-autoregressive model. The methodology allows accounting for differences across groups of countries (advanced economies,...
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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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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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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 insecurity and rising food prices : what do we learn from experiential measures?
Jolliffe, Dean; Seff, Ilana; De La Fuente, Alejandro - 2018
Throughout many countries in the world, the measurement of food security currently includes accounting for the importance of perception and anxiety about meeting basic food needs. Using panel data from Malawi, this paper shows that worrying about food security is linked to self-reports of having...
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Long-Term Impacts of an Unanticipated Risk Event : The 2007/08 Food Price Crisis and Child Growth in Indonesia
Yamauchi, Futoshi - 2016
Unanticipated spikes in food prices can increase malnutrition among the poor, with lasting consequences; however, livelihood strategies that include producing food for home consumption are expected to offer a measure of protection. Using anthropometric and consumption data from Indonesia...
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