Export taxes have been used in many countries. The 2007–2008 food price crisis shed light on export policies’ dangerous consequences for food security during periods of price spikes.
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Gender and trade in Africa: Case study of Niger
The evidence on the impact of trade liberalization on gender inequalities is not fully established yet, nor is the impact of gender inequalities on trade policy outcomes.
Intra-household resource allocation when food prices soar: Impacts on child growth in Indonesia
An unanticipated spike in food prices can increase malnutrition among the poor with lasting consequences, but parents can protect the most vulnerable within the family by distributing scarce food to minimize adverse impacts.
Between May and July 2018, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) implemented a household-level survey in four areas of PNG: the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (South Bougainville near Buin), Madang (Middle Ramu near Kwanga St
In Tajikistan, the poorest country in the Central Asia region and one of the poorest in the world, food consumption patterns remain inadequate for a significant share of the population.
Mitigating the adjustment costs of international trade
This brief examines possible policy responses to the adjustment costs related to international trade.
Long-term impacts of an unanticipated risk event: The 2007/08 food price crisis and child growth in Indonesia
Unanticipated spikes in food prices can increase malnutrition among the poor, with lasting consequences; however, livelihood strategies that include producing food for home consumption are expected to offer a measure of protection.
This study investigates the determinants of farmers’ crop choice decisions, crop area diversification, and income diversification in Sub-Saharan Africa using nationally representative panel data for Nigeria and Uganda.
Correlated non-classical measurement errors, ‘second best’ policy inference and the inverse size-productivity relationship in agriculture
We show analytically and empirically that non-classical measurement errors in the two key variables in a hypothesized relationship can bias the estimated relationship between them in any direction.
This paper examines the fertilizer subsidy program in Nepal from two different angles, both important for policy makers in the country.
Knowledge of actual poverty prevalence is important for any society concerned with improving public welfare and reducing poverty.
We use firm-level data from the World Bank’s Regional Program on Enterprise Development, covering Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Tanzania for 1991–2003.
A global assessment of the economic effects of export taxes
Gendered impacts of the 2007-08 food price crisis
This paper provides empirical evidence on the gendered impact of the 2007–08 food price crisis using panel data on 1,400 households from rural Ethiopia that were initially surveyed before the onset of the crisis, in 1994–95, 1997, and 2004, and af
Trade and investment in Latin America and Asia
The last several years have seen an unprecedented cooperation in trade and investment between Asia and Latin America.
Is SAFTA trade creating or trade diverting?
The Agreement on South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) entered its second phase of implementation in 2008.
There is rising skepticism about the potential positive environmental impacts of first generation biofuels. Growing biofuel crops could induce diversion of other crops dedicated to food and feed needs.
Recent findings on trade and inequality
The 1990's dealt a blow to traditional Heckscher-Ohlin analysis of the relationship between trade and income inequality, as it became clear that rising inequality in low- income countries and other features of the data were inconsistent with