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The Microeconomics of the Developmental Paradox : On the Political Economy of Food Price Policy
Barrett, Christopher B. - 2001
for coalition alignments with respect to food price policy, then numerically simulates the comparative static effects of … alternative food policies on coalition structure. A parsimonious household model applied to a heterogeneously endowed society …, coalition alignments on particular policy debates are path-dependent. In particular, food price policy creates its own political …
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The microeconomics of the developmental paradox : on the political economy of food price policy
Barrett, Christopher B. - In: Agricultural economics : the journal of the … 20 (1999) 2, pp. 159-172
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North Korea as a complex humanitarian emergency : assessing food insecurity
Noland, Marcus - In: Asia and the global economy : AGE 2 (2022) 3, pp. 1-17
North Korea is a complex humanitarian emergency with food insecurity at its core. As of August 2022, both quantity and price data point to a deteriorating situation, made worse by the regime's self-isolating response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. Food availability has likely...
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Reclaiming the Right to Food as a Normative Response to the Global Food Crisis
Narula, Smita - 2015
The number of hungry in the world has crossed the one billion mark, a dubious milestone that has been attributed in large part to consecutive food and economic crises. Over ninety-eight percent of these individuals live in the developing world. Ironically, a great majority are involved in food...
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Globalization, crop choice and property rights in rural Peru, 1994 - 2004
Field, Alfred J.; Field, Erica - 2007
This paper describes the results of initial work analysing a panel of rural households in Peru between 1994 and 2004 to determine household responses to changes in relative prices of traditional versus export-oriented products. Our principal interest was to better understand how household...
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Engel's law in China : some new evidence
Chen, Menggen - In: Review of development economics : an essential resource … 26 (2022) 3, pp. 1640-1662
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The political economy of food price policy : the case of Zambia
Chapoto, Antony - 2012
The global food price crisis of 2007/08 raised fears about the impacts of higher and more volatile food prices for the poor in Zambia. Like in the past, the implementation of the strategies to deal with the rising food prices, especially for the staple crop maize were delayed due to ineffective...
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World prices and domestic food price spikes
Bakucs, Zoltán; Fertő, Imre - 2013
In this paper we aim to assess the mechanics of the global food price increases experienced in the recent years, most profoundly during the 2007-2008 food price spikes. At this stage, we aim to test, whether there is an empirically assessable relationship between World agricultural commodity...
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How strong do global commodity prices influence domestic food prices in developing countries? : a global price transmission and vulnerability mapping analysis
Kalkuhl, Matthias - 2014
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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The political economy of food price policy : the case study of India
Ganguly, Kavery; Gulati, Ashok - 2013
India did not experience any food price spikes during 2007-08 when global food prices erupted. It was partly due to India's ban on exports of wheat and common rice. But the fiscal stimulus that the government provided in 2009 in the wake of G8 countries' call to avert economic recession, coupled...
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