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Global food price shock and the poor in Egypt and Ukraine
Aboulenein, Soheir; El Laithy, Heba; Helmy, Omneia; … - 2010
countries. In Egypt and some other countries it has put food subsidy schemes to the test. This paper develops two comparable … computable general equilibrium models for Egypt and Ukraine which are used to simulate direct and indirect impacts of the food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430844
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The political economy of food price policy in Egypt
Ghoneim, Ahmed Farouk - 2012
The study focuses on the period 2004-09 during which Egypt experienced food crisis. The political economy context on …, agricultural, and economic policies in Egypt together with the structural aspects of the food subsidy policies are discussed and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319766
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动荡局势下的中国粮食安全分析及应对: 保持冷静, 继续维护贸易畅通
Kuhn, Lena; Jaghdani, Tinoush Jamali; Prehn, Sören; … - 2022
国际农产品贸易对于维护全球粮食安全起着关键的作用。 一方面， 国际贸易使全球的消费者得以获取多样性的食物（Krivonos 和 Kuhn， 2019）， 另一方面， 贸易也可以通过食品分配机制， 充分利...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014419582
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The political economy of food pricing policy in China
Huang, Jikun; Yang, Jun; Rozelle, Scott - 2013
The overall goal of this paper is to analyse the political economy of food price policies in China during the global food crisis. The results show that given China's unique economic and political context and the nature of its agricultural markets, the government's reaction to the crisis was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319826
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The political economy of food price policy: Country case study of Mozambique
Nhate, Virgulino; Massingarela, Claudio; Salvucci, Vincenzo - 2013
The 2007-09 price shocks affected in particular the prices of food commodities and fuel. As a consequence, Mozambique experienced reduced exports, more expensive imports and increased food and oil prices, contributing to the stagnant poverty rates registered in 2008/9. Our analysis finds, first,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319858
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The political economy of food price: The case of Ethiopia
Admassie, Assefa - 2013
Food prices increased significantly in 2007 - 08 in Ethiopia due to several supply- and demand-side factors. The Ethiopian government released emergency food grain reserves, imported and distributed wheat at subsidized price, banned the export of staple cereals, and removed value added and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319942
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Food price pass-through in the euro area The role of asymmetries and non-linearities
Ferrucci, Gianluigi; Jiménez-Rodríguez, Rebeca; … - 2010
In this paper we analyse the pass-through of a commodity price shock along the food price chain in the euro area. Unlike the existing literature, which mainly focuses on food commodity prices quoted in international markets, we use a novel database that accounts for the role of the Common...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605214
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Effects of food price shocks on child malnutrition: The Mozambican experience 2008/09
Arndt, Channing; Hussain, M. Azhar; Østerdal, Lars Peter - 2012
inflation with child malnutrition status. We find that the prevalence of underweight amongst children rises in response to a … higher inflation rate for basic food products. Stunting and wasting malnutrition measures are mostly insensitive to the … inflation rate. The very high food inflation during 2008/09 was responsible for an extra 39,000 moderately underweight and 24 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319790
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Sectoral Transformations in Neo-Patrimonial Rentier States: Tourism Development and State Policy in Egypt
Richter, Thomas; Steiner, Christian - 2007
economic development. The analysis of the rise of tourism in Egypt during the last three decades suggests that the effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293519
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When Do Autocracies Start to Liberalize Foreign Trade? Evidence from Four Cases in the Arab World
Richter, Thomas - 2010
procurement. A longitudinal comparison of four countries (Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan) in the Middle East and North Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293534