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...

African Union member states decided to establish "the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) during the 18th meeting of 2012 at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The AfCFTA aims at facilitating intra-African trade and improving Africa's trading position in the global market. In this study, we...

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...