Poverty Impact of Food Price Shocks and Policies (English)

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...

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Laborde,David;

Lakatos,Csilla;

Martin,William J.;
Document Date
2019/02/05
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
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WPS8724
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1
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1
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World,
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Other,
Disclosure Date
2019/02/05
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Disclosed
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Poverty Impact of Food Price Shocks and Policies
Keywords
food price

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Laborde,David; Lakatos,Csilla; Martin,William J..

Poverty Impact of Food Price Shocks and Policies (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 8724 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/863311549375011898

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