Date: 2010
Type: Book
Food prices and rural poverty
Washington, D.C. : The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank ; London : Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2010
AKSOY, M. Ataman, HOEKMAN, Bernard M. (editor/s), AKSOY, M. Ataman, HOEKMAN, Bernard M., Food prices and rural poverty, Washington, D.C. : The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank ; London : Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2010
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/42887
Retrieved from Cadmus, EUI Research Repository
This book reviews trends in international prices and trade patterns of key food commodities, and assess the incidence of food price changes in a number of developing countries using household level data on sources of incomes and consumption patterns.
Table of Contents:
-- Introduction and overview / M. Ataman Aksoy and Bernard Hoekman
-- Food prices and poverty : how the food crisis changed policy perspectives / Jo Swinnen
-- Placing the recent commodity boom into perspective / John Baffes and Tassos Haniotis
-- International and domestic food prices / M. Ataman Aksoy and Francis Ng
-- Household income structures in low-income countries / M. Ataman Aksoy [and others]
-- Are low food prices pro-poor? Net food buyers and sellers in low-income countries / M. Ataman Aksoy and Aylin Isik-Dikmelik
-- Net food importing countries : the impact of price increases / Francis Ng and M. Ataman Aksoy
-- Food prices : household responses and spillovers / Guido G. Porto
-- Net food buyers and sellers : switching in Vietnam / M. Ataman Aksoy, Javier Beverinotti and Aylin Isik-Dikmelik
-- Trade reforms and welfare : an ex post decomposition of income in Vietnam / Aylin Isik-Dikmelik
-- Trade reforms, farm productivity, and poverty in Bangladesh / Irina Klytchnikova and Ndiame Diop
-- The impact of commodity price changes on rural households : coffee in Uganda / Maurizio Bussolo [and others]
-- Food price increases and the wage channel : sugar in Brazil / Ekaterina Krivonos and Marcelo Olarreaga
-- The cost of moving out of subsistence in Madagascar / Olivier Cadot, Laure Dutoit and Marcelo Olarreaga
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/42887
ISBN: 9781907142130
