in staple foods during the 2008 world food price crisis. Those changes -- reductions in import protection or increases in …

-scale protests, partial or full reversals of price adjustments, or softening of pricing reform policy. Governments' attempts to keep … domestic prices artificially low -- through price control, export or quantity restrictions, or political pressure put on oil …, subsidies, price controls, and other restrictions have helped protect inefficient refineries and oil marketers. Mitigation …

safety nets and world trade. Despite the limitations of food price stabilization policies, they are widespread in developing … countries. This paper attempts to untangle the elements of this policy conundrum. Price stabilization policies arise as a result … many countries to adjust trade policies to take ad-vantage of the world market in order to achieve domestic price stability …

complex in a large country that determines the biodiesel price, reflecting market equilibrium changes resulting from … volatility in the crude oil price. Oilseed crushing produces joint products -- oil and meal ?-- and this weakens the link between … both canola and soybeans are used to produce biodiesel, an increase in the crude oil price leads to higher canola prices …

uptake of regulation, implementation has proved to be challenging in the developing world. Regulators were seldom as …-to-day practice of regulation. In practice, many developing countries operate with ?advisory regulators? whose main role is to provide … technical support to the ultimate political decision makers. Nevertheless, there is some evidence that regulation has had a …

Regulation often creates opportunities for public officials to extract bribes. If this is true, deregulation offers a … simple way to combat corruption. However, empirical evidence on the corruption and regulation nexus is limited. Further, the …

household labor income and poverty in Brazil. The authors first estimate the extent of price transmission from world markets to …