Artikel

The welfare impact of rising food prices

Dramatic food price spikes in recent years have stimulated debate on the welfare implications of food price risk. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the number of undernourished people in sub-Saharan Africa rose to a record 265 million in 2009. There is a gradually developing policy consensus in favor of income redistribution to the poor in developing countries hit by the food price crisis. This recommendation makes sense when the poor are net food consumers, but it ignores the possibility that some poor people are net producers of food and so are likely to benefit from rising food prices.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: IZA World of Labor ; ISSN: 2054-9571 ; Year: 2015 ; Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Thema
rising food prices
labor and income generating strategies in the rural tropics
poverty
inequality

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Dimova, Ralitza
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2015

DOI
doi:10.15185/izawol.135
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ

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  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Dimova, Ralitza
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2015

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