Inflation, especially the food inflation has become a major economic challenge for the public policy in the … contemporary India. Inflation pressure on food products is caused by interplay of multiple factors. The literature has identified … various sources of food price inflation that included institutional factors, market conditions and institutional arrangements …

This thesis addresses 3 different aspects of food and poverty related problems in developing countries. The first essay … the non homogeneity of food products. This is realized by providing an estimate of the value of the good by means of a … hedonic food price model. A model is proposed that decomposes unit values into spatial price factors and a value component …