There is an extensive literature noting that high inflation can add to income inequality, and a parallel literature … assessing the effect of rising food prices on the poor. This paper attempts to combine these strands by dividing inflation into … food and nonfood inflation and assessing whether food inflation affects income inequality differently from nonfood …

There is an extensive literature noting that high inflation can add to income inequality, and a parallel literature … assessing the effect of rising food prices on the poor. This paper attempts to combine these strands by dividing inflation into … food and nonfood inflation and assessing whether food inflation affects income inequality differently from nonfood …

crops (wheat, maize, and rice) in up to eight countries (India, China, Egypt, Thailand, Ecuador, Uruguay, the United States …