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The increase in food prices represents a major crisis for the world's poor. This paper aims to review the evidence on the potential impact of higher food prices on poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, and examines the extent to which policy responses will benefit the poor. The paper shows that rising...
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In this paper, we study the effect of exogenous global crop price changes on migration from agricultural and non-agricultural households in Sub-Saharan Africa. We show that, similar to the effect of positive local weather shocks, the effect of a locally-relevant global crop price increase on...
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food price inflation, but domestic factors can mitigate these vulnerabilities. On the external side, our estimations show … food prices estimated close to unity for highly imported staples. On the domestic side, staple food price inflation is … price increases. Economic policy can lower food price inflation, as the strength of monetary policy and fiscal frameworks …
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