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This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the initial shock due to the pandemic under the assumption that products that are more labor intensive in production are more affected through workers' morbidity and containment...
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The purpose of the article is to review and critique the implementation of food export restrictions in times of crisis in addressing food security challenges. The methodological approach was to undertake a narrative literature review to outline the challenge of ensuring food security in times of...
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We study the effect on nutrition of an exogenous increase in food grain subsidy in rural India resulting from a program … targeting the poor. Our analysis suggests that increase in income resulting from the food price subsidy changed consumption … subsidy to expenditures on non-food items. Estimates of the price effect of food price subsidy on the three measures of …
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We study the effect on nutrition of an exogenous increase in food grain subsidy in rural India resulting from a program … targeting the poor. Our analysis suggests that increase in income resulting from the food price subsidy changed consumption … subsidy to expenditures on non-food items. Estimates of the price effect of food price subsidy on the three measures of …
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Fiscal policies can help shift the relative food prices to encourage vs. discourage consumption and improve diets, especially among the poor. We use 2017-2018 packaged food purchase data for U.S. households to derive income- and household composition-specific demand elasticities across 22...
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The global population is forecasted to reach 9.4 billion by 2050, with much of this increase concentrated in developing regions and cities. Ensuring adequate food and nourishment to this large population is a pressing economic, moral and even security challenge and requires research (and action)...
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