There is an extensive literature noting that high inflation can add to income inequality, and a parallel literature … assessing the effect of rising food prices on the poor. This paper attempts to combine these strands by dividing inflation into … food and nonfood inflation and assessing whether food inflation affects income inequality differently from nonfood …

There is an extensive literature noting that high inflation can add to income inequality, and a parallel literature … assessing the effect of rising food prices on the poor. This paper attempts to combine these strands by dividing inflation into … food and nonfood inflation and assessing whether food inflation affects income inequality differently from nonfood …

Food prices are generally excluded from measures of inflation most closely watched by policymakers due either to their … transitory nature or their higher volatility. However, in lower income countries, food price inflation is not only more volatile … but also on average higher than nonfood inflation. Food inflation is also in many cases more persistent than nonfood …