The Impact of Higher Oil Prices on Low Income Countries and the Poor : Impacts and Policies

This note is designed to provide a brief of how the current oil price increases are expected to impact low income countries and poorer households. By tracing the transmission mechanisms of the shocks it points to areas where mitigating policies for...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bacon, Robert
Format: Publications & Research
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/08/7095239/impact-higher-oil-prices-low-income-countries-poor-impacts-policies
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17963