Spatial accessibility is concerned with the opportunity that an individual at a given location possesses to participate in a particular activity or set of activities. The main objective of this paper is to highlight the shortcomings of traditional accessibility measures and provide some...

The paper presents a model to analyze the adjustment of prices of non-traded food staples to changes in global food prices via the response of traded commodities in domestic markets. It shows that the impact on local prices of shocks originating in global markets lasts much longer than suggested...