Poverty Impact of Food Price Shocks and Policies
In the event of large swings in world food prices, countries often intervene to dampen the impact of international food price spikes on domestic prices and to lessen the burden of adjustment on vulnerable population groups. While individual countri...
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okr-10986-312282022-09-18T12:16:30Z Poverty Impact of Food Price Shocks and Policies Laborde, David Lakatos, Csilla Martin, Will FOOD PRICES FOOD SECURITY POVERTY PRICE SHOCK TERMS OF TRADE POLICY In the event of large swings in world food prices, countries often intervene to dampen the impact of international food price spikes on domestic prices and to lessen the burden of adjustment on vulnerable population groups. While individual countries can succeed at insulating their domestic markets from short-term fluctuations in global food prices, the collective intervention of many countries may exacerbate the volatility of world prices. Insulating policies introduced during the 2010-11 food price spike may have accounted for 40 percent of the increase in the world price of wheat and one-quarter of the increase in the world price of maize. Combined with government policy responses, the 2010-11 food price spike tipped 8.3 million people (nearly 1 percent of the world's poor) into poverty. 2019-02-07T17:31:14Z 2019-02-07T17:31:14Z 2019-02 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/863311549375011898/Poverty-Impact-of-Food-Price-Shocks-and-Policies http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31228 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8724 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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In the event of large swings in world
food prices, countries often intervene to dampen the impact
of international food price spikes on domestic prices and to
lessen the burden of adjustment on vulnerable population
groups. While individual countries can succeed at insulating
their domestic markets from short-term fluctuations in
global food prices, the collective intervention of many
countries may exacerbate the volatility of world prices.
Insulating policies introduced during the 2010-11 food price
spike may have accounted for 40 percent of the increase in
the world price of wheat and one-quarter of the increase in
the world price of maize. Combined with government policy
responses, the 2010-11 food price spike tipped 8.3 million
people (nearly 1 percent of the world's poor) into poverty. |
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Laborde, David Lakatos, Csilla Martin, Will |
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Laborde, David Lakatos, Csilla Martin, Will |
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Laborde, David |
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Poverty Impact of Food Price Shocks and Policies |
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Poverty Impact of Food Price Shocks and Policies |
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Poverty Impact of Food Price Shocks and Policies |
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Poverty Impact of Food Price Shocks and Policies |
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Poverty Impact of Food Price Shocks and Policies |
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poverty impact of food price shocks and policies |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/863311549375011898/Poverty-Impact-of-Food-Price-Shocks-and-Policies http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31228 |
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