Alberto Zezza (Agricultural and Development Economics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization) Benjamin Davis (Agricultural and Development Economics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization) Carlo Azzarri (Agricultural and Development Economics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization) Katia Covarrubias (Agricultural and Development Economics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization) Luca Tasciotti (Agricultural and Development Economics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization) Gustavo Anriquez (Agricultural and Development Economics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization)
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This paper analyzes the household level impact of an increase in price of major tradable staple foods in a cross section of developing countries, using nationally representative household surveys. We find that, in the short term, poorer households and households with limited asset endowments and access to agricultural inputs will be hit the hardest by the price shock. Given the ample degree of heterogeneity among households and among the poor, the analysis emphasizes the importance of meaningful policy research to go beyond average impacts to look at how access to assets and inputs, livelihood strategies and other key household characteristics drive the magnitude and distribution of the effects of the price increases.
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Paper provided by Agricultural and Development Economics Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO - ESA) in its series Working Papers with number
08-07.
Length: 37 pages Date of creation: 2008 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:fao:wpaper:0807
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Find related papers by JEL classification: Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy O13 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
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Benjamin Davis & Paul Winters & Gero Carletto & Katia Covarrubias & Esteban Quinones & Alberto Zezza & Kostas Stamoulis & Genny Bonomi & Stefania DiGiuseppe, 2007.
"Rural Income Generating Activities; A Cross Country Comparison,"
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07-16, Agricultural and Development Economics Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO - ESA).
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