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How strong do global commodity prices influence domestic food prices in developing countries? : a global price transmission and vulnerability mapping analysis
Kalkuhl, Matthias - 2014
This paper analyzes the transmission from global commodity to domestic food prices for a large set of countries. First, a theoretical model is developed to explain price transmission for different trade regimes. Drawing from the competitive storage model under rational expectations, it is shown...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010353578
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Commodity price volatility, poverty, and growth inclusiveness in Sub-Saharan African countries
Bourguignon, François - In: Commodity price volatility and inclusive growth in …, (pp. 205-222). 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009744388
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External shocks and the HIPC initiative : impacts on growth and poverty in Africa
Nureldin Hussain, Mohammed; Gunter, Bernhard G. - In: African development review 17 (2005) 3, pp. 461-492
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003308145
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Shocks to the international prices of agricultural commodities and the effects on welfare and poverty : a simulation of the ex ante long-run effects for Uruguay
Moncarz, Pedro E.; Barone, Sergio V.; Descalzi, Ricardo - In: International economics : a journal published by CEPII … 156 (2018), pp. 136-155
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012027258
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Food security, commodity price volatility and the poor
Braun, Joachim von; Tadesse, Getaw - In: Institutions and comparative economic development, (pp. 298-312). 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009711545
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Challenges and policy lessons for the growth-employment-poverty nexus in developing countries
Fields, Gary S. - In: IZA journal of labor policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-24
Of the world’s 6.7 billion people (as of 2008), 1.3 billion lived on less than $1.25 Purchasing Power Parity dollars per person per day and another 1.7 billion lived on between $1.25 and $2.50 PPP dollars (Chen and Ravallion, 2012). The scourge of absolute economic misery among billions of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687331
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Aid volatility and poverty traps
Agénor, Pierre-Richard; Aizenman, Joshua - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003547904
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Aid volatility and poverty traps
Agénor, Pierre-Richard; Aizenman, Joshua - In: Journal of development economics 91 (2010) 1, pp. 1-7
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003924248
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Aid Volatility and Poverty Traps
Agenor, Pierre-Richard - 2013
This paper studies the impact of aid volatility in a two-period model where production may occur with either a … for the modern technology to be used. The possibility of a poverty trap induced by high aid volatility is first examined … form of a first-period contingency fund) financed through taxation. An increase in aid volatility is shown to raise the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753834
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Aid Volatility and Poverty Traps
Agénor, Pierre-Richard - 2007
This paper studies the impact of aid volatility in a two-period model where production may occur with either a … modern technology to be used. The possibility of a poverty trap induced by high aid volatility is first examined in a …-period contingency fund) financed through taxation. An increase in aid volatility is shown to raise the optimal contingency fund. But if …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465250