Coping with Rising Food Prices: Policy Dilemmas in the Developing World
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Keywords
food prices; inflation; poverty; Africa; Asia; Latin America and the Caribbean;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
- I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
- Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; Animal Welfare Policy
- O24 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - Trade Policy; Factor Movement; Foreign Exchange Policy
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2009-05-23 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-DEV-2009-05-23 (Development)
- NEP-MAC-2009-05-23 (Macroeconomics)
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