Meyimdjui, Carine; Combes, Jean-Louis - 2021
This paper studies whether fiscal policy plays a stabilizing role in the context of import food price shocks. More … precisely, the paper assesses whether fiscal policy dampens the adverse effect of import food price shocks on household … consumption. Based on a panel of 70 low and middle-income countries over the period 1980-2012, the paper finds that import price …