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The Food Crisis and its Impacts on Poverty in Senegal and Mali: Crossed Destinies

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  • Dorothée Boccanfuso

    () (GREDI, Faculte d'administration, Université de Sherbrooke)

  • Luc Savard

    () (GREDI, Faculte d'administration, Université de Sherbrooke)

Abstract

In this paper we use a CGE macro-micro modelling approach to analyse the distributional impact of the food crisis and to examine a couple of policy responses in two neighbouring West African countries. Both countries are strongly dependent on agriculture; both have similar climates and share many other features. However, the approach we use captures structural differences at both the macro level and the micro level for household income and expenditure structures. Our results reveal surprising and significant differences for poverty impact at the national and sub-group levels, as well as for inequality and pro-poor analysis. These differences are present for the world price increase of agricultural goods as well as policy responses to the food crisis. Our results highlight the importance of country-specific analysis and the risk of extrapolating conclusions from one country to another.

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Paper provided by Departement d'Economique de la Faculte d'administration à l'Universite de Sherbrooke in its series Cahiers de recherche with number 08-20.

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Length: 35 pages
Date of creation: 25 Nov 2008
Date of revision: 08 May 2009
Handle: RePEc:shr:wpaper:08-20

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Keywords: Impact analysis; computable general equilibrium modeling; food crisis; Africa;

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  1. Fall, Abdou & Salmon, Léa & Wodon, Quentin, 2010. "Impact sur la pauvreté et perceptions de la crise économique au Sénégal: Analyses quantitative et qualitative
    [Impact on Poverty and Perceptions of the Economic Crisis in Senegal: Quantitative     ," MPRA Paper 34417, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  2. Boeters, Stefan & Savard, Luc, 2011. "The labour market in CGE models," ZEW Discussion Papers 11-079, ZEW - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung / Center for European Economic Research.
  3. Djibril Ndoye & Franck Adoho & Prospère Backiny-Yetna & Mariama Fall & Papa Thiecouta Ndiaye & Quentin Wodon, 2009. "Tendance et profil de la pauvreté au Sénégal de 1994 à 2006," Perspective Afrique, Association Africaine pour les Sciences sociales, vol. 4(1-3), pages 1-29.

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