The impact of food price volatility on consumer welfare in Cameroon

Arbeitspapier

The objective of this paper is to analyse the welfare effects of food price volatility on Cameroonian consumers. Using data from the third Cameroonian Household Consumption Surveys, the price elasticities are obtained from a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System model. Price elasticities are then used to evaluate the distributional impacts of food price changes in terms of compensating variation. The paper finds that: (a) poor households are the most affected by food price volatility and (b) the welfare losses from food price volatility depend on the extent of any price hike.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-92-9230-898-8
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2015/013

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis ; Other Economic Systems: Consumer Economics; Health; Education and Training; Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty ; Agricultural Policy; Food Policy
• Thema: price volatility ; consumer welfare ; Cameroon

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Kane, Gilles Quentin ; Mabah Tene, Gwladys Laure ; Ambagna, Jean Joël ; Piot-Lepetit, Isabelle ; Sikod, Fondo
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (wo): Helsinki
• (wann): 2015

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2015/898-8
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/126373
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ