This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the … percent on average. Escalating export restrictions would multiply the initial shock by a factor of 3, with world food prices …

percent). Since the impact of convergence on the supply side is much more muted, convergence puts upward pressure on world … food prices, partially offsetting a baseline trend toward falling world food prices to 2050 …

a world with high inequalities than in a more equal world. In the long run, impacts could be much stronger, with global …

evaluating economically optimal allocations of the world's land resources. A dynamic, forward-looking optimization framework …

an indicator of self-assessed food security from the Gallup World Poll. For the sampled countries as a whole, this …

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 … classifying themselves at the World Trade Organization as developing account for only 3 percent of world rice consumption. But it …

The spread of COVID-19 and implementation of "social distancing" policies around the world have raised the question of …

As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc across the world, researchers are attempting to quantify the economic fallout from …

applies not just to the vulnerable in the rich world; the vulnerable in the rest of the world are not more immune. Yet … inequality creates the impression that the world is subjected to two different pandemics in terms of their impact. This paper … yet to run its course through the age distributions of the world …