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Globalization in the Food sector and Poverty

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  • Wolfgang Maennig

    (Chair for Economic Policy, University of Hamburg)

  • Leo Doerr

    (Chair for Economic Policy, University of Hamburg)

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This paper provides new evidence on the globalization‒poverty nexus. We innovate by using an indicator of globalization in the food sector, finding evidence of a significantly aggravating impact on poverty prev-alence, adding to earlier studies that use indicators of general globalization. The opening of food markets since the mid-1990s in Latin America might have accounted for approximately 2 additional percentage points of the population living below the absolute poverty line of $2 a day in our sample.

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  • Wolfgang Maennig & Leo Doerr, 2024. "Globalization in the Food sector and Poverty," Working Papers 078, Chair for Economic Policy, University of Hamburg.
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