Analysing Vietnam's rice export policy and recent export ban in the context of rising food prices, this study combines … insights from a regionally-disaggregated or 'bottom-up' CGE model and a micro-simulation using household data. Three main … poor households, benefit from free trade, even though domestic rice prices are higher. Finally, under free trade …

Former Soviet Union. Datais used from the first nationally representative household surveyconducted in Tajikistan since … independence and the cessation of the civilwar. The picture that emerges is of a population facing severe economic,physical and … psycho-social stress.Over 95 percent of the population are living below the minimumconsumption basket, four out of five are …