consumption poverty. The analysis finds that poor households in Uganda tend to be net buyers of food staples, and therefore suffer … foods. The paper estimates that both the incidence and depth of poverty have increased -- at least in the short run -- as a … result of higher food prices in 2008, increasing by 2.6 and 2.2 percentage points, respectively. The increase in poverty is …

to suppress cereal price increases may have adverse effects on poverty reduction in the long term by undermining …

.3 million people (nearly 1 percent of the world's poor) into poverty …

distortions in their prices can have a significant effect on poverty reduction. This paper compares domestic prices in Senegal … estimates that if this differential were eliminated, the purchasing power of households around the poverty line would increase … by 3 percent, 227,000 people would move above the poverty line, and the national poverty rate would drop by 1 …