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Global Food Price Inflation : Implications for South Asia, Policy Reactions, and Future Challenges

Ahmed, Sadiq - 2012

The surge in global commodity prices of the past few years has presented a tremendous development challenge for South Asian countries. The large loss of income from the terms of trade shock has worsened macroeconomic balances, fueled rapid inflation, and hurt growth. Although commodity prices...

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Managing Food Price Volatility in a Large Open Country : The Case of Wheat in India

Gautam, Madhur; Gouel, Christophe; Martin, Will; … - 2016

India has pursued an active food security policy for many years, using a combination of trade policy interventions …

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Food Prices, Wages, and Welfare in Rural India

Jacoby, Hanan - 2013

the Public Distribution System, India's giant food-rationing scheme. Moreover, policies, like agricultural export bans …This paper considers the welfare and distributional consequences of higher relative food prices in rural India through … rural India. Conventional welfare analyses that assume fixed wages and focus on households' net sales position lead to …

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Food Security and Wheat Prices in Afghanistan : A Distribution-sensitive Analysis of Household-level Impacts

D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - 2012

This paper investigates the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally-representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. It uses a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile Regression estimator, based on influence functions, to...

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The Impact of the Global Food Crisis on Self-Assessed Food Security

Headey, Derek D. - 2013

growth and limited food inflation in some of the most populous countries, particularly India. However, these favorable global …

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Sugar Policies : Opportunity for Change

Mitchell, Donald - 2013

Sugar is one of the most policy distorted of all commodities, and the European Union, Japan, and the United States are among the worst offenders. But internal changes in the E.U. and U.S. sugar and sweetener markets and international trade commitments make change unavoidable and provide the best...

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Sugar in the Caribbean : Adjusting to Eroding Preferences

Mitchell, Donald - 2012

Sugar exporters of the Caribbean depend on preferential sales of sugar to the European Union and United States at prices that are two to three times the world market price. Without these preferences, sugar export revenues would decline significantly. These preferences are likely to erode in the...

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Trade Reforms, Farm Productivity, and Poverty in Bangladesh

Klytchnikova, Irina; Diop, Ndiame - 2012

This paper analyzes the distributional impacts of trade reforms in rural areas of Bangladesh. The liberalization of trade in irrigation equipment and fertilizer markets during the early 1990s has led to structural changes in the agricultural sector and a significant increase in rice...

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Rice Prices and Poverty in Liberia

Tsimpo Nkengne, Clarence; Wodon, Quentin - 2012

When assessing the impact of changes in food prices on poverty, it is important to consider food producers (who may benefit from an increase in prices) as well as consumers (who loose out when the price increases), with a focus on poor consumers and producers. In the case of rice in Liberia...

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Product Market Integration and Household Labor Supply in a Poor Economy : Evidence from Vietnam

Edmonds, Eric V.; Pavcnik, Nina - 2013

This report considers how product market integration in a country's primary agricultural export alters the economic activities of men and women in a poor economy. Between 1993 and 1997, Vietnam relaxed its rice export quota and freed internal restrictions on the trade of rice across regions....

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