The effects from the change in food prices on household welfare is a topical issue among policy makers and scholars in … Tanzania. However, relatively little is known about the quantitative effects of rising food prices on household welfare and … poverty. This paper intends to quantitatively assess the welfare implications of rising food prices in rural Tanzania, by …

Evidence suggests that household responses to price and income changes are significantly sensitive across income levels … poverty, objective and subjective. We evaluate the differential responses of poor households vs. non-poor households to … changes in food expenditures and prices and simulate the welfare losses from food price changes across poverty definitions. We …

The aim of this paper is to assess the welfare effects of food price changes on urban households' poverty and …, based on the poverty line, 41% of urban households were observed to be below the poverty line and the number of poor …