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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 … harvests and seasonality - two critical dimensions of smallholder agriculture in Africa - mediate the effects of export bans on … household welfare. This study assesses the short-term impact of export bans on prices and welfare of households in Malawi …
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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
affected through workers' morbidity and containment policies. It then estimates how escalating export restrictions to shield … pandemic, the global export supply of food could decrease between 6 and 20 percent and global prices increase between 2 and 6 … percent on average. Escalating export restrictions would multiply the initial shock by a factor of 3, with world food prices …
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Household impacts of tariffs : data and results from agricultural trade protection
Artuc, Erhan; Porto, Guido G.; Rijkers, Bob - 2019
How do trade reforms impact households in different parts of the income distribution? This paper presents a new database, the Household Impacts of Tariffs data set, which contains harmonized household survey and tariff data for 54 low- and lower-middle income countries. The data cover highly...
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What is the impact of weather shocks on prices? : evidence from Ethiopia
Hill, Ruth Vargas; Fuje, Habtamu - 2020
The impact of drought on household welfare is the cumulative effect of crop losses and price changes in a local economy that are triggered by these initial losses. This paper combines data on monthly grain prices and wages in 82 retail markets over 17 years with data on district-level weather...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022286
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004809
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Internationally linked firms, integration reforms and productivity : evidence from Pakistan
Lovo, Stefania; Varela, Gonzalo - 2020
This paper examines productivity dynamics and drivers for Pakistani firms listed in the stock exchange (publicly listed firms) over 2012-17. It relies on policy and outcome measures of integration in upstream merchandise and services sectors, to assess their impact on productivity downstream....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297620
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Horticulture Exports from Ghana : A Strategic Study
World Bank - 2011
Export and Investment Initiative (HEII) were created as the result of restructuring of the agribusiness support component of … businesses and of the product portfolio; international trade had expanded and an increasing population participated in export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247557
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Iraq's universal public distribution system : utilization and impacts during displacement
Phadera, Lokendra; Sharma, Dhiraj; Wai-Poi, Matthew - 2020
Subsidized or free distribution of food has been a central pillar of social protection programs in many countries. With the number of forcibly displaced persons at record levels, the question arises of whether in-kind food transfer programs are effective in mitigating the loss of welfare induced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229133
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Cereal Market Performance in Ethiopia : Policy Implications for Improving Investments in Maize and Wheat Value Chains
World Bank Group - 2018
The objective of this study is to provide an updated overview on the performance of cereal markets in Ethiopia. Specifically, the study seeks to inform and guide project operations for the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) and the World Bank. First, it aims to inform the government about incentives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645343