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The Short-Term Impact of Higher Food Prices on Poverty in Uganda
Simler, Kenneth R. - 2017
indicated that the adverse effects of higher food prices in Uganda were likely to be small because of the diversity of its … consumption poverty. The analysis finds that poor households in Uganda tend to be net buyers of food staples, and therefore suffer … highest in the Northern region, which is already the poorest in Uganda. The need for mitigating social protection measures …
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Cash Transfers, Food Prices, and Nutrition Impacts on Nonbeneficiary Children
Filmer, Deon - 2019
saturation; at median saturation, the village income shock is 15 percent. These effects persist 2.5 years after program …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012899691
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Food Prices, Access to Markets and Child Undernutrition in Ethiopia
Brenton, Paul - 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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Long-Term Impacts of an Unanticipated Risk Event : The 2007/08 Food Price Crisis and Child Growth in Indonesia
Yamauchi, Futoshi - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969546
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Managing Food Price Volatility in a Large Open Country : The Case of Wheat in India
Gouel, Christophe - 2017
India has pursued an active food security policy for many years, using a combination of trade policy interventions, public distribution of food staples, and assistance to farmers through minimum support prices defended by public stocks. This policy has been quite successful in stabilizing staple...
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Food Prices, Road Infrastructure, and Market Integration in Central and Eastern Africa
Brenton, Paul - 2017
Market integration is key to ensuring sufficient and stable food supplies. This paper assesses the impediments to market integration in Central and Eastern Africa for three food staples: maize, rice, and sorghum. The paper uses a large database on monthly consumer prices for 150 towns in 13...
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Long-Term Impacts of Global Food Crisis on Production Decisions : Evidence from Farm Investments in Indonesia
Nose, Manabu - 2017
seven provinces of Indonesia, this paper finds that the price shock created a forward-looking incentive to invest, which can … dynamically enhance productivity in agriculture. It also finds that the impact of the price shock on investment behavior differs …
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Export Restrictions and Price Insulation During Commodity Price Booms
Martin, Will J. - 2017
For individual countries, variable trade barriers can be used to reduce the volatility of domestic relative to world prices. If this is done by countries accounting for a large share of the market, its effect is offset by increases in world price volatility. This study shows the nature of the...
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Poverty Impact of Food Price Shocks and Policies
Laborde, David - 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/10012892747
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The Impact of Economic Shocks on Global Undernourishment
Tiwari, Sailesh - 2017
This paper estimates the impact of the 2008 food price spike and the 2009 contraction in global growth on undernourishment rates. The analysis is based on a methodology that uses a calorie-income relationship and income distribution data. The authors find that the 2008 global food price spike...
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