Analyzing Food Price Trends in the Context of Engel’s Law and the Prebisch-Singer Hypothesis

Income growth in emerging economies has often been cited as a key driver of the past decade’s com-modity price boom—the longest and broadest boom since World War II. This paper shows that income has a negative and highly significant effect on real...

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Main Authors: Baffes, John, Etienne, Xiaoli L.
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:
GDP
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/09/25093870/analyzing-food-price-trends-context-engel’s-law-prebisch-singer-hypothesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22843