Alem, Yonas; Söderbom, Måns - In: World Development 40 (2012) 1, pp. 146-162
We use survey data to investigate how urban households in Ethiopia coped with the food price shock in 2008. Qualitative data indicate that the high food price inflation was by far the most adverse economic shock between 2004 and 2008, and that a significant proportion of households had to adjust...