Political Economy of Recent Global Food Price Shocks: Gainers, Losers and Compensatory Mechanism
in Journal of African Economies
May 2011; p ublished online May 2011 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Economywide Country Studies; Other Economic Systems; International Relations and International Political Economy; Agricultural Economics; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables; Public Economics. 19990 words.
Food prices have increased steadily since 2003 to become a real burden to the poor and net purchasers of food, although price shocks could be an opportunity to stimulate agricultural...