With increasing Internet user rates across Africa, there is considerable interest in exploring new, online data sources. Particularly, search engine metadata, i.e. data representing the contemporaneous online-interest in a specific topic, has gained considerable interest, due to its potential to...

This study looks at trends in Indian farm wages, analyses their linkage with food prices, and identifies factors which drove their growth in real terms. We employ quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques for this purpose. A vector-error correction model (VECM) is used to determine the...

The inflation surge in recent years is having profound social, economic, and political consequences. With food price changes being an integral part of inflation, low income segments of the population are strongly impacted. What makes this period so unusual is the breadth of price pressures that...

Since 2017, the prevalence and absolute number of undernourished people have been increasing. While much of the recent surge in global food prices can be attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the food security crisis will not be over when prices come down to...

The structural and acute causes of the food price crisis in 2022 are more complex and more severe than in 2008, but with regard to the risk of excessive speculation, lessons can be learned from the experience of the past price crises. Preventing excessive speculation in commodity futures markets...

This study looks at trends in Indian farm wages, analyses their linkage with food prices, and identifies factors which drove their growth in real terms. We employ quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques for this purpose. A vector-error correction model (VECM) is used to determine the...