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How the price of food is determined has become a critical issue, given the drastic surges in prices in recent years and the prevailing expectation of further increases. Along this line, this paper examines the sources of food price fluctuations in 11 developing Asian countries. The working model...
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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict constitutes a prominent example of a long-lasting political conflict which has major consequences for the livelihoods of the people on both sides. The agricultural sectors of the Palestinian and Israeli economies are tightly connected. However, various security...
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government achieved the envisaged objectives. -- food price ; agriculture ; price shocks ; political economy …
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This paper analyses how rising agricultural prices affect heterogenous farm production and access to inputs under credit market imperfections in the CEE transition countries. Using the FADN farm level panel data, which contains 37416 observations for 2004 and 2005, we estimate a farm credit...
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inflation became 75 percent less responsive to shocks in food prices since the late 1970s. The decline in the pass-through of … food price shocks to inflation is a result of a decline in both volatility and the persistence of food price changes in … well-anchored, the pass-through of food price shocks to inflation will likely remain subdued …
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This paper examines the dynamic effects of monsoon rainfall shocks on yield, wages, and prices in the Indian … agricultural sector. We distinguish between positive and negative rainfall shocks and explicitly consider their spatial dimension … (local/regional). We find that particularly negative regional shocks exert adverse effects. The enormous drop in agricultural …
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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...
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